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Posts from February 2009

Clarion 2009!

If you think you might be a fantasy/science fiction writer, or if you’re sure you are, and you have the time and the wherewithal to spend six weeks in a quasi-paradise doing nothing but writing and dissecting stories and talking about fiction, studying under a series of amazing writers who you just might have been [...]


Compromise, Redefined

Ross Douthat, on the brainless stimulus “compromise” we’re about to be saddled with:

Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses. But what Nelson, Collins, Specter and Co. have done isn’t a new kind of politics. It’s the [...]