Timothy Noah

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.