In the search for truth, no fact is ever truly useless. Obtaining fact, not factoid, is crucial, because the public usually only hears one tiny facet of any major issue, Timothy Garton Ash argues in Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name.
This evening, Stephen Colbert will talk with Timothy Garton Ash, author of Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report. Garton Ash, professor of European studies at Oxford, has written extensively on modern political history, notably covering Communism and the 1989 Revolutions
Paul Goldberger more than held his own while discussing Why Architecture Matters with Stephen Colbert last night. The critic kept a cool head and even lent his expert opinion to the host’s proposed “half Parthenon, half White House” design for the Colbert estate. In reference to his book, Goldberger also