If the robot was our double in the 20th century, perhaps the ghost will be our double n the 21st. Kelefa Sanneh: “When people in America say that certain jobs are ‘disappearing,’ they usually mean that non-Americans are now doing them.”
More kudos, then, to the Daily Show for their series on Iran; in particular, the segment in which a hip twentysomething couple in Tehran imitates Jon Stewart imitating George W. Bush.