If you graduated from Vassar or Oberlin, if you know what "PoMo" means and can use it in a sentence, if you listen to records by Ladytron or Interpol, you're deck as heck. The rest of you are fin. Robert Lanham, the arbiter of hip, will reveal whether you make the grade.
The Bubble Baath
Mohamad Bazzi, UN and Middle East correspondent for Newsday, on the Syrian elections and opinions on the war in the Middle East
Khalid-ing Stars
Ahmed Rashid, correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the London Daily Telegraph and author of Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (Penguin, 2003) and Taliban (Yale University, 2002), on the US' attempts to persuade Pakistan to support the UN resolution and ...
Deck or Fin?
Robert Lanham, author of The Hipster Handbook (Vintage Books, 2002), on the hipster scene in Williamsburg and beyond
The Wrath of Rumsfeld
Michael Hardt, professor of literature at Duke University and co-author of Empire (Harvard University Press, 2001), on the new anti-Europeanism in America
Open Phones
Jewish and Catholic callers on whether they support the war