Blogged live from the Astrodome, a charming photo-op exchange between Tom DeLay and three young boys evacuated from New Orleans: MORE »

Whoa. One enduring lesson of the devastation that was Katrina: When you want to take stock of a soul-testing national crisis, New York media is pretty much the LAST place you want to turn. Here is the New York Sun’s Pia Catton, on the eve of the Big Apple’s Fashion Week, mulling the pesky fashion dilemmas posed by thousands upon thousands of homeless and dead poor people: MORE »

The unthinkable destruction of Katrina continues to astonish all . . . except for New York magazine “It Happened This Week” columnist Jim Holt, who has done the world the dubious service of hitting what’s known as the Gopnik mark, ie., reducing horrible human tragedy to the stuff of tedious, nay, juvenile, pseudocosmopolitan self-infatuation: MORE »