Since August 2009, we’ve had more than 35,000 readers. More than half of our 128 posts have been read at least 100 times. Here’s a list of readers’ top twenty favorite articles, ranked by total numbers of readers as of 1/20/2011. Community is “streets ahead” of the rest Placebo: Without You I’m Nothing Despicable Me…
Grant chose ten of his favorite articles from the Earn This archives, presented here in no particular order with a choice quote from each article: Jay Mathews writes, logic cries “I very much believe that intelligent discussion of one of the country’s most prominent high schools is warranted. This is not that.” Shutter Island: Live…
For the past few months, I’ve been meaning to do a sweeping revision of everything I’ve written for Earn This. I finally waded through the archives, polishing and trimming and clarifying to make my writing stronger. I’m notoriously bad at picking up every grammar or wording error before I publish an article, but my archive…
When I was first invited to submit content to Earn This, I saw it as an opportunity to express some of my worldview and to attack personal hotbutton issues in the context of discussions about arts and entertainment, specifically music. My eagerness led me to kick things off with two didactic soapbox stands in a…
A thoughtful summary of several of the best 3rd wave ska songs around.
The U.S. version of The Office is my favorite show of all time (for a variety of reasons, all of which will be detailed in a post published probably some time around when this season’s finale airs). Yet, until this past week, I had never seen the British original. In the past five days, I’ve…
Rating: Two and a half stars (out of four) It’s hard to imagine what it must have felt like to be there in August 1939. When Dorothy first left the flat, gray landscapes of Kansas and stepped into the vibrant land of The Wizard of Oz, theater audiences went with her, and they discovered a…
I have a confession to make, and that is — despite my love of movies and music and television and books and video games and the like — I tend not to be very up to date on my media consumption. There’s simply too much for me to pay attention to, and it usually costs…
Rating: two stars (out of 4) The Invention of Lying just doesn’t know what it wants to be. It spends its first third belaboring its premise — a world where people are incapable of lying — with the same joke over and over. Then it shifts to a Yes Man-type attempt at an inspiring tale.…
Brace yourself, all 4 of our readers (oh hai)…my post today will either be an Earnthis vanguard—or an epic failure. It addresses neither movies/TV nor music, but if you make me, I’ll defend its popular culture relevance, and that’s listed in our tagline too. Our source material today is a column from Washington Post writer…