Circumstantial evidence suggests that The Ethicist(tm) might be listening to my advice (or Paperwight). Still, I’m not in the mood to be terribly magnanimous. The first two “corrections” offered this week deal with private property as opposed to other social goods. First, he reassesses his views on the ever-crucial question of the mutilation of Medieval texts (doesn’t he […]
Month: September 2004
Kos asks if he has no shame. The answer is clearly no, but the more interesting question is has he ever looked at voting demographics in this country?
Apparently we’ve decided that Cuba doesn’t have an offensive bio-weapon program. Considering that they’ve been sitting off the coast of Florida for forty-three years and haven’
Laura Rozen excerpts a Salon interview with Sy Hersh: Jacoby: Is there someone who is the Henry Kissinger in this administration? Hersh: Oh, believe me, I pray for one [clasps his hands and looks beseechingly upward]. Wouldn’t it be great if the reality was that they were lying about WMD, and they really didn’t believe […]
Fred Kaplan has a characteristically excellent column about the technical difficulties presented by the current missile defense system. For those who haven’t had the chance, read Kaplan’s
I had no idea about this, which I find fascinating. If I’m ever called upon to teach American political development/history and the 1896 election comes up, you can bet this’ll be in my le
The fine people at Fox News were kind enough to broadcast Kerry’s Iraq speech at NYU this morning, live and uninterupted. I’ve been surfing around looking for a transcript, or even a decent online recap, with no success as of yet. Choose your news here. At any rate, I’d encourage those who have been hounding […]
Much as I hate to admit it, I think the Florida Supreme Court was correct in its 6-1 ruling to allow Ralph Nader on the ballot. When laws are ambiguous, it seems reasonable to interpret them in ways
Lindsay Beyerstein has a good review of Thomas Frank’s new book. I do think, however, that her punchline underemphasizes the most important part of Frank’s argument: Short answer: the habi
You’re all familiar with the classic hack circle-jerk, such as Glenn Reynolds fulsomely praising the wit and widsom displayed by Mickey Kaus on The Dennis Miller Show Starring Rupert Pupkin, thus creating an exponential interaction of hackdom. Well, its filmic equivalent is coming to a theatre near you. Andrew Lloyd Weeber being directed by Joel Schumacher–yowza. Hell […]
First, arguing about which of the two stupidest foreign policy maneuvers of the last forty years is stupider is, well, a stupid thing to do. But, if I’m going to carry on, it’s better to m
Borrowing again from that young Harvard punk, I have to confess to many of the same hawkish sentiments. This isn’t the first time that we’ve discussed how judging a position by the worst