Month: June 2009
Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler stroll down Memory Lane at Time magazine, where moral panic isn't a sociological concept -- it's an exciting brand of contemporary journalism. I was at.
Mahmound Ahmadinejad is a billion times worse than Hitler, unless he loses the election, in which case he was always irrelevant.... each major candidate seem to believe that he won.
...because he makes Saletan look good by comparison?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.Also, Jon Chait on why people Glenn Reynolds need to learn it's actually possible to be right wing and still hate Jews.
Well, this isn't surprising. Hopefully, this time parochial interests won't trump the compelling public interest, although given the extent to which American political institutions favor the former I'm still not.
This is clever.
I wonder which of Ross Douthat and Megan McArdle's pre-existing policy preferences we're going to have to institute in order to appease the latest domestic terrorist. Certainly, I don't think.
If radical Muslims had carried out terrorist attacks in Kansas and Washington DC over the past five days, we might be trying to pass legislation giving the president the legal.