Takes just don't get much more scorching hot than this. Even Maggie Gallagher isn't sounding this desperate these days...
One of the most common responses to Age of Ultron, which I enjoyed a lot although not without reservations, is that the movie's insistent emphasis on the Avengers preventing civilian.
In case there were any doubt. More here.
Another horrible disaster in the global apparel industry. This time it was in the Philippines where at least 72 are dead after a fire burned a slipper factory. There might not have been many deaths, despite the fact that the sparks set off chemicals used in...
Purchase the new essay collection -- Tower of the Hand: A Hymn for Spring -- containing essays by Attewell! Because believe it or not even after everything else he's written and 55.
One of the really great ones. R.I.P.
There's really no excuse for this kind of thing in the age of the internet, when you can look stuff up in five minutes that 20 years ago would have taken weeks to track down: Sarah Maslin Nir’s extraordinary two-part exposé, in the Times, of the...
National borders are usually pretty weird and unsettling places. But the story of the India-Bangladesh border is especially odd.
Yesterday in Washington D.C, Bill De Blasio and a bunch of people from the left wing of the Democratic Party announced a Progressive Agenda on economic inequality. It's essentially a marker being.
One of the reasons I vastly prefer Mark Bittman to Michael Pollan among famous food writers is that Bittman gets that injustice is a major issue whereas Pollan is mostly happy to talk about the glories of foraging for mushrooms and longing for women to go...
Updated below How much money has the law school reform movement cost ABA law schools? This is not very difficult to calculate, if we define the law school reform movement.
Recently, Bijan reminded me in comments that I've never quoted some of my favorite passages from the United States Reports here. These quotes from Robert Jackson's opinion in Wickard v..