Author: Aaron Barlow

Yesterday, I attended a National Press Club “event” in Washington, DC (if you want to see my story on it for ePM, click here) entitled “Who is a Journalist?”  It was a panel discussion, including the...

On March 8, I posted a diary about taking credit for results your actions did not cause.  On March 11, Martin Peretz published “The Politics of Churlishness” in The New Republic, making the ridiculous claim that...

I’ve been thinking about the group called Students For Academic Freedom whose tagline is “You can’t get a good education if they’re only telling you half the story.”  It’s a Horowitz...

There has been a lot of talk of this recently, but I would like to try to encapsulate what has been going on in the minds of the right so that we on the left can intelligently promote our own agendas in the changing political...

With the Supreme Court considering the MGM/Grokster file-download case, perhaps it is time once again to review what I have come to call “the Grateful-Dead Effect” and the inherent self-defeating silliness of the...