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“The Deepwater Horizon leak has been capped and the president is taking a vacation. Let’s repeal the oil spill and start all over.” Gail Collins delivers some biting satire in her Saturday column.
A game currently under development will allow players to interact emotionally with a virtual human. Is it the end of human connections or the fortification of our innate emotional sense?
Mark Twain’s posthumous autobiography reveals the author’s darker side, but will we bother to notice? Or will we prefer the “Disneyfied” history of the man as avuncular satirist?
“France has no interest in becoming a multicultural society—or, to put it traditionally, a mosaic society or a tapestry of loosely bound communities,” writes Jane Kramer. “It is not the Ottoman empire.”