Why Nab Roman Polanski Now? Revenge
There is nothing inevitable about catching a famous person who has not been in hiding after 31 years. Indeed, he didn't just riskily or mistakenly show up in Switzerland; he owned a house there.
There is nothing inevitable about catching a famous person who has not been in hiding after 31 years. Indeed, he didn't just riskily or mistakenly show up in Switzerland; he owned a house there.
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 11.21.2009 | Comedy
The revenge literature would have you believe that the only way to truly savor your moment of deliverance is to have waited for it for a long. They tell you this because they want to sell your story to Lifetime.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.27.2009 | Entertainment
Maybe I'm alone here, but I say Inglorious Basterds is about something more.
Eva Nagorski | Posted 08.23.2009 | Style
Europe's political wives are no longer standing by their men. In fact, they're more inclined to stand anywhere where they can give them a good clean kick in the derriere.
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business
Lately, it seems that bridges are built to be burned. The internet has made getting revenge easy today. Lose your job, start a blog. Hate your boss, shout it out on Facebook or Twitter.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living
Psychologists say that carrying hostility around can kill us. Wanting someone to rot in hell, we are told, does more damage to ourselves than to the objects of our anger. Healing comes from letting go of the hatred. Really?
David Quigg | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media
As Andrew Sullivan noted in the earliest hours of the Obama presidency, It only took Michael Goldfarb twenty-two minutes to start blaming Obama for Iraq.
Michael E. McCullough | Posted 12.08.2008 | Media
Quick note to let everybody know that this week's edition of the NPR show "Speaking of Faith" is an interview with yours truly about the science behin...
Michael E. McCullough | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
There's a really nice piece by Ben Carey in the New York Times today about the role of the revenge instinct in people's responses to the Wall Street b...
New York Times | Benedict Carey | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business
The public urge for punishment that helped delay the passage of Washington's economic rescue plan is more than a simple case of Wall Street loathing, ...
Michael E. McCullough | Posted 10.22.2008 | Home
A lipstick-adorned pit bull who hunts big game and shoots wolves from an airplane. Unless you've been in a coma for the past month, you've probably n...
Michael E. McCullough | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
The ability to control revenge and broker forgiveness among groups in conflict is a crucial, though underappreciated, element of statecraft. We need a president who can rebuild our reserves of this resource.
Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.30.2008 | Entertainment
Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin pulls off a neat trick: it turns Batman into a joke without being funny at all.
Michael Wolff | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment