Somewhere in Bourdieu's conversation with Wacquant, he observes -- and I'm paraphrasing here -- that the purpose of social science is to make it difficult to say idiotic things about the social world. Now I'm not an economist, of course, but to the degree that...
Author: davenoon
Well, this is mighty awkward: A judge in South Carolina has declared a black church to be the lawful owner of a building that is home to a store that.
Oh, how we're going to miss her. She fails to mention, however, that Tim Tebow also believes the Obama administration is moving the nation toward a One World Currency. I'm.
Whatever else might be said about Michele Bachmann's invocation of 2 Thessalonians ("The Bloodening"), we ought to remember that Bachmann -- as a devoted and serious pupil of American history -- must also have known that she was offering a shout-out to Captain John Smith,...
Lindsay Beyerstein points us to this piece in which Slate managing editor Rachael Larimore announces to the world that she's available to purchase your fradulent goods and services. The short.
I work in a plumassier – that’s a fancy word for “sweatshop.” I spend fourteen hours a days willowing ostrich feathers so that rich women can wear attractive hats. Because.
Well, I'm convinced! The vast Siberian tundra holds untold mysteries, from once-secret nuclear installations to alleged UFO crash sites. Now, a team of scientists say they are "95%" sure that Russia's wintry expanse is home to the mythical yeti, otherwise known as the abominable snowman....
Look. Walter Russell Mead is correct to note that Columbus Day, at its origins, owes almost nothing to Christopher Columbus himself (though I'm modestly surprised that Mead didn't use the.
The Richard Nixon Death List grows...
The invention of Doritos coincides roughly with the mainstreaming of weed in American culture. Today, the nation says goodbye to the man who helped nourished stoners for a half century. Charles Elmer Doolin, the creator of Cheetos, apparently died in 1959, so bloggers will have...
At the risk of being insufficiently devotional today, I will note that this is totally bizarre. Two aluminum shields were fashioned out metal that was salvaged from remnants of the.
I see that Ed Morrissey is relying today on a strain of Althousian hyper-literalism* to prove that Barack Obama is an idiot or something because he described Abraham Lincoln as.