I subscribe to the Wilson Quarterly (actually, it is a gift subscription from a college roommate running for something like twenty years now), and invariably find it to be a good read, sometimes better.

Even the most respectable media sometimes falls into the minor hyperbole that TWQ did; but that doesn't mean I don't find such errors less annoying.

What am I writing about? An author's casual assertion that "the development of the atomic bomb had created the first truly existential thre... read more