Humanizing The Vacuum

Poor Bill Clinton , still champing at the bit.

I plead guilty to cultivating a certain detachment -- one of my best friends calls me The Tin Man -- but my Cuban blood, which demands chast...

For the Who Woulda Thunk It file: Ted Olson and David Boies join forces to overturn California's Proposition 8. 

With comic book movies having reached a post-Nero stage of decadence, it's instructive to return to hip-hop, in which Marvel tropes stil...

I never thought I'd agree with a Jackson Browne opening monologue...

Stanley Fish, responding to President Obama's mission to appoint a successor to Justice David Souter who values "empathy" as m...

More singles reviews: Tommy Sparks , The Big Pink (really), and N-Dubz .

You're not really president until the Disney Company preserves you in plastic, silicon, and wire.

Christian Bale, James Wolcott reminds us, is not a human being, nor does he inspire to be one. For a time I thought this was a limitation ;...

The hosannas heaped on Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown by a couple of my favorite critics worry me a little. I don't hear a no...

Today Christopher Hitchens called Wanda Sykes the "Sable Sapphist" in his Slate column . 

Andrew Sullivan isn't known for temperance. This is a guy about whom it can truly be said that he's all id. His passion, though, ma...