Floyd Norris discusses why many people are still bearish despite improving economic numbers. Who dares to be truly confident in the recovery with all that public debt piled up like snow on the side of a steep mountain, just waiting for a black swan to honk loudly, and send it down on us like an…

David Pogue’s NYT review of the iPad seems to have captured perfectly the polarization it’s causing. Techno-geeks tend to hate it, while the masses love it. Laura Miller’s Salon piece spells out what I intuited about why I’d love to have an iPad: it makes reading text on a computer pleasurable. Excerpt: So, while even…

The Catholic writer John Zmirak went back to his favorite Catholic haunts in his native New York during Holy Week, and published this beautiful but deeply melancholic reflection on the loss of the world he once knew. Excerpt: St. Vincent Ferrer Church on Lexington and 66th, the most exquisite church I’ve seen in America —…

Stunning reporting from the National Catholic Reporter’s Jason Berry about how the drug-addicted pedophile Father Marcial Maciel funneled payoffs to very high-ranking members of the Roman curia — including his great protector, for Vatican Secretary of State Angelo Cardinal Sodano — to buy influence for him and his very conservative, and highly corrupt, religious order.…

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