This is a prologue to some further thoughts and observations in the coming days/weeks. Consider the accuracy of the following two statements, in light of this and this: 1) The Catholic Church considers the use of contraception to be a flagrant violation of God's designs and...
In the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal, Lisa Wade discussed some data which contrasted justifiable homicide rates in stand-your-ground states to those without. Not terribly shocking, "In SYG states, 13.6%.
A bit more on airpower, seapower, and strategic theorizing: The ongoing debates over airpower theory, seapower theory, and strategic theory more generally have glided over three issues: the division between domains of action,.
Are televised college sports news programs or commercial events? The NCAA's legal theory, as put forth at the summary judgment hearing in the O'Bannon class action suit today, is that college football and basketball games are news events, rather than commercial events. Commercial events, NCAA lead...
If constitutional monarchy is good for anything, surely Marie-Philip Poulin will have been declared the Prime Minister of Canada before the end of the evening. Also, for Americans inclined to.
Obama has gone from nominally supporting Social Security cuts attached to conditions that ensured they couldn't pass to explicitly not supporting them, and good. This comments thread is now particularly.
We cocky Jacobin secular liberals are used to Damon Linker's moderately culturally conservative concern trolling by now. I must say, however, that this is a twist I didn't expect: The competition for worst president since the early 1930s is pretty fierce. But for my money, Lyndon...
This commercial is getting heavy rotation during the Olympics coverage. Its social theory is that Americans live in multimillion dollar houses because they work harder than the latte-sipping denizens of.
If you are like me, you know basically nothing about Ukraine and the protests going on there. This was tremendously useful. In part: More subtly, what this campaign does is.
You may remember Naomi Schaefer Riley from such self-refuting arguments as "African-American studies is a completely worthless field; for my evidence, allow me to re-type some titles of dissertations I haven't read." Well, on the wingnut welfare circuit no argument is bad enough to prevent anyone...
Per this summons, Baltimore Ravens' star running back Ray Rice hit his girlfriend so hard that he knocked her unconscious. (She allegedly hit him first, so she's also being charged.
My new "Internet Film School" column is up. Sample: Typically, romances rely on a small stable of predictable-but-effective techniques that convince the audience it’s witnessing the first, chemical blush of.