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I should feel more sympathy for the compulsive shoppers, but I have to admit that my first reaction is to think they are pretty idiotic. Muc...

Here's an astounding fact, from a LRB review of Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 by Göran Therborn: "In 1960,...

This is one of the fucking stupidest things I've ever seen. Could it also be brilliantly self-parodic? In the Netherlands, stringent an...

What's with this bizarrely impassioned screed against Spitzer's prosecuting the pay-for-play scamsters in the music and radio indus...

Noting the concurrent rise of fey troubaours of the adolescent consciousness, Matthew Wilder skewers the likes of Wes Anderson, Jonathan Saf...

I had to go to Rockefeller Center today because I had packages to mail out, and the closest post office to where I work is there. It was no ...

I'm not so diligent that I read every story in the Money & Investing section of the Wall Street Journal -- I don't do due dilig...