Sean Elder

  • Tucker the Terrible vs. the Ragin' Cajun

    Making dueling-pundit shows more civil is a ticket to nowhere. What we need to see is Bob Novak in leopard-skin tights and a well-oiled Paul Begala.
  • Oops, they went goth!

    My daughter and her friends are suddenly wearing plaid miniskirts and carting around Living Dead Dolls. What do black lipstick and snap-on dog collars mean to a 10-year-old?
  • From street thug to dharma punk

    Noah Levine rejected the spiritual path of his father, Stephen, and then, many tattoos later, joined him.
  • The shadow president

    People say I look like you know who. Why me, lord?
  • The death of Rolling Stone

    The magazine that invented rock journalism lost its reason to exist years ago. Now, with a British lad-mag editor taking the helm, it's time to pull the plug.
  • Appreciation: Ken Kesey

    Captain Flag of the good ship Furthur didn't just create great literature, he was great literature -- and a quintessentially American character.
  • Bill Murray

    The funniest graduate of "Saturday Night Live" has made an art form (and a career) out of insincerity and a blank stare.
  • Van Morrison

    The Irish singer-songwriter has identified himself with poets from Blake to Yeats, and like those "poetic champions," he has searched for the right words, the right feeling, as if for the Holy Grail.
  • All O.J., all the time

    Promoting his Web site and his innocence, America's best-known acquitted murder suspect isn't just for breakfast anymore.
  • The sappiest generation

    By Sean Elder
  • Brill's folly

    What if you launched a Web site and nobody came?
  • Can't anyone around here edit?

    By Sean Elder
  • Can't anyone around here edit?

    As long-form narrative pieces go the way of Diogenes, magazines search for that rarity: An editor who knows how to edit.
  • Bigger than both of us

    Time Warner and AOL shareholders bless the marriage. But will Europe and the U.S. government throw rice?
  • Oh, grow up

    Offspring is making a smarter parenting magazine. Is that what parents want?
  • Crazy like a fox

    Fox news is out to save its ailing Web site by borrowing -- literally and politically -- from its resurgent news channel. Even if it means rewriting a few stories.
  • Real Simple editor quits

    Staffers assume Time Inc. top editor Norman Pearlstine pushed Susan Wyland out, hoping for a bigger return on a $40 million investment.
  • All media, all the time

    Inside.com wants your undivided attention, and $19.95 a month. Plus: Jesus goes local.
  • Letters to the editor

    Bush's nonchalance toward death penalty is disturbing Plus: Is Microsoft's call for censoring justified? America's "Child Geniuses" are just book-smart.
  • Godless television

    CBS drops Christian Web site ad from "Jesus" miniseries.
  • The media minuet

    Spring is here. And so is the meeting of media moguls, mavens -- and the National Magazine Awards.
  • Letters to the editor

    Readers scoff at Horowitz's Fidelophobia Plus: Were Columbine cops cowardly? Is testosterone a man's best friend?
  • All about Vicky

    Tina Brown's Talk may have more than it bargained for in its new executive editor.
  • Times change

    For the first time in 15 years, the New York Times fails to win a Pulitzer Prize.
  • Free Bryant Gumbel!

    As "The Early Show" struggles for an audience, its host may be longing to escape.
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