In his column today, David Brooks asks whether winning an Academy Award is worth it, if it comes with a cheating husband, as it did for Sandra Bullock. I don’t care about that question, but I do want to underscore some Brooksian fallacies. They are not his alone, but he is giving them wings by [...]
Culture & History
Thinking and Choosing or Thinking About Choosing
By Natalie Berkowitz I have long been a follower of Edward Tufte for his ability to represent information clearly and cogently as a graphical perfectionist. The style Mr. Tufte uses is what I believe children and adults should see when viewing information so they can both understand and make decisions regarding what they have learned. In this day [...]
LGBT
Maybe Your Marriage Will be Visible After All
Great news for people who love civil rights and demographic accuracy. Conducive author Heather Tirado Gilligan wrote in the June/July 2009 issue that the federal government would count same-sex married people as “single” in the 2010 census. Gilligan claimed the census was reponsive to the voice of the people, and she was right. Same sex [...]
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