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.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.