For the tenth month in a row, this year in Iraq was worse than last year. What do I mean? From April 2004 to January 2005, every single month has seen a higher death toll than the same month the previous year. It's hardly the most...
Month: January 2005
In my previous post, I argued that Roe v. Wade did not come "from nothing," but was a logical application of an extensive constitutional tradition. In an excellent post, sympathetic.
Now that this argument has officially become contrarian, I will explain why Roe v. Wade was correct on the merits. Before I begin, a few things to note about my.
#46 on this list reminded me of one of my most pleasant surprises of 2005. Although generally very conscious about changing the channel at the end of The Daily Show, early this year I was working and wasn't near the remote. I was pleased to discover that a...
Rob's Pick Rob's Predicted Winner All of these are given our options. Remember, we have to fight the Academy Awards with the nominations we have, not the nominations we would.
At Balkanization, Mark Graber makes a great point about the Summers fracas: Why does the president of Harvard focus only on those academic areas where superficial numbers suggest boys do slightly better.
Like a white knight (and I mean that in every sense of the phrase), Chuck Murray rides to the rescue of Larry Summers and all who would like to believe that innate genetic differences between men and women, and between whites and people of color, are...
I vividly remember Johnny Carson's last show, in 1992. Why can I remember the year? Well, the same night I saw Lou Reed at the Theatre St. Denis (great show,.
I'm sure that this isn't literally without precedent, but the Steelers are 3 point underdogs today. I certainly can't remember a healthy home team being an underdog in a conference.
The best defense of Bush v. Gore was written by Richard Posner. It was still strikingly unpersuasive, but since Posner is a pragmatist it did have the advantage of not trying to pretend that the decision was principled or could be reconciled with the past jurisprudence of...
Elton Beard catches the LA Times publishing some fake grass. (And it isn't even that shiny new Field Turf; it seems more like the worn-out turf they had at the.
As an interlude, I thought it would be useful to link to this old post, which brings up an empirical fact that rarely makes it into "counterintuitive" arguments about how the.