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What’s bad for liberals has been very good for Bill Maher.

For decades, Martin Peretz taught at Harvard and presided over The New Republic—a fierce, if controversial, lion among American intellectuals and Zionists. Now, having been labeled a bigot, taunted at his alma mater, and stripped of his magazine, he has found peace in a place where there is little: Israel.

We might not like Mark Zuckerberg or Julian Assange—but we’re going to have to learn to live in the world they’re making.

Recovering from a stroke in his VA-hospital room, the porn pioneer is a model patient. Mostly.

In 2010, Matt Lauer played gin rummy on-air with Kim Kardashian and listened to Angelina Jolie talk about how she gets better as she gets older. But he also sparred with George W. Bush.

To listen to the doomsday pundits, one might assume that social networking is the death of the neighborhood: so cold, so virtual, so alienating! But serendipity, and human intimacy, come in many forms.

Tyler Brûlé ushered in a design revolution with Wallpaper magazine. His new global media strategy is equally rarefied, and only occasionally ridiculous. Listen to him for a while, and the world seems positively aglow with possibility.

A machers’ breakfast at the Regency with the longtime interviewer, who’s about to hand off his CNN mike. Next up: stand-up.

At News Corp., outgoing schools chancellor Joel Klein will look for ways to build an individualized-online-classroom business.

The controversial author is hiring young writers to join him in a new publishing company. The goal is to produce the next Twilight. The contracts are brutal.