"[O]pportunities to work for free"

Matthew Yglesias has been defending unpaid internships with a lesser-evil argument: they're better than pricey grad school. Specifically...

SAHH

Slate has a story from a man who's a stay-at-home husband . Not dad, just husband. His now-wife got her PhD and (it can happen! though I...

In defense of: bus riders

Am I missing something? Or wouldn't it seem that people who take the bus because they don't have/drive a car are overall travelling ...

Are you being served?

-The tipping wars have been rekindled , with a horde of commenters furious at a stingy blogger who had the gall to confess to only tipping ...

Nostalgia for auto-parts

Jeremiah Moss's nostalgia for the West Chelsea of recent yore makes for a nice bit of anti-High-Line contrarianism, but doesn't add...

Second After Sartre

The WWPD take on Anne-Marie Slaughter's already-picked-apart Atlantic cover story , "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." I...

A contrarian food-movement takedown

There's a new book out I'm intrigued by, even though what I know of it is that the NYT reviewer, Dwight Garner, hated it . Tyler Cow...

Why you should buy those lattes

Every so often , the NYT discovers that the sky is blue, the earth is round, and if you spend $3 on coffee every day, 3x365 amounts to a bi...

Checking one's privilege at the first-class kiosk

Katie Roiphe has discovered , recently, it seems, that the Internet is not the utopia of kindness and goodwill she might have hoped for. On ...