Monthly Archives: November 2011

Friday Funaggling

Letter to the DFP editor

Wednesday’s “Bearing the cross” editorial was reactionary, unlettered, and demagogic–but it also began with a clear-cut chunk of plagiarism. Comparing the first three paragraphs of said article with a New York Times article entitled “Justices Decline Case On Highway Crosses” from Monday, it is woefully obvious that the author lifted the first three paragraphs of […]

Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry in conversation

Two scintillating authors in a lighthearted conversation. The event is the brainchild of Intelligence Squared, who’ve put up a page for the talk here that explains how to watch it–would anyone chip in for $8 so we could watch it live together?