The New York Times and Murdoch
Day by day, another shoe drops in the story from Britain concerning the phone-hacking scandal and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. The latest news is that the head of Scotland Yard has resigned, and former News of ...
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Sorry for the hiatus. The day job and moving house have got in the way. Service is resumed.
This week’s articles of note
“Why Europe no longer matters,” Washington Post, by Richard N. Haass
“The online looking-glass,” The New York Times, by Ross Douthat [on Weiner]
“Barack Obama: unity president or great divider?” Fortune, by Nina Easton
“Death of the duopoly,” Wall Street Journal, by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
“Why not ...
Sympathy for the devil (LeBron)
Congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks for winning the National Basketball Association finals last night. It was a riveting series, nearly every game a close one.
This morning I woke to hear all the sports pundits saying that ...
Fortunate Son
A great anti-war song, one with balls. A great song period. This is the original version from Creedence Clearwater Revival, performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1969.
This week’s articles of note
“Disaster not averted,” The New Republic, by Dean Baker
“Obama’s ratings,” National Journal, by Ronald Brownstein
“California’s green jihad,” Forbes, by Joel Kotkin
“Evolution: Darwin’s city,” Nature, by Emma Maris
“Man is not cat food,” Los Angeles Review of Books, by Barbara Ehrenreich [Review of five books on animals ...
Weiner: what a rubbish sex scandal
The Anthony Weiner incident shows that politicians are now so lame that they don’t even do scandal well.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Not the only Weiner
How to describe Anthony Weiner? Creepy, pathetic, cringe-inducing… but even those words seem too generous.
For those outside the US who haven’t followed this story (or Americans who have been living in a cave), let me briefly provide ...
“Mediscare”: the US politics of fear
The debate over Medicare shows that both Republicans and Democrats now rely on panic over principle.
Read my spiked article in full here.
New York City’s “Department of Moral Guidance”
New Yorker covers are usually very good, but this week’s is especially so. The drawing, by Bruce McCall, is called “Moral Guidance”. It depicts three ...
ABOUT SEAN COLLINS
I write about American current affairs for Spiked, the online magazine. I am a native New Yorker, and I divide my time between New York City and upstate New York.
In addition to articles for Spiked, The Australian and other publications, I contributed an essay, "BDS: Demonizing Israel, Destroying Free Speech," for the book Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus (2016). I also wrote a chapter on New York City's economy for the book London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital? (2012).
My writings have been cited in American Conservative, Arts & Letters Daily, the Financial Times, Fox News, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the New York Times, Real Clear Politics, and the Times of London, among other media.
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