My colleague Dan Byman explains why Zarqawi’s death probably won’t make things better, and may even make them worse (via Robin Varghese of 3 Quarks Daily): Still, the history of killing terrorist and insurgent leaders suggests that we must be cautious before declaring the death of any leader to be decisive. In 1992, Israel killed […]
Month: June 2006
Yet another example. I’m sure that the intensive campaign to de-link NRO will start immediately! (Or, at least, as soon as they’ve started one for Jeff Goldstein.) Admittedly, there is a c
An interesting post to pull out of Buridan’s Ass on the definition of oppression. Buridan argues that being an oppressed group requires (a) being a group and (b) being oppressed and neither of t
Last year, I discussed the risibly spurious civil rights arguments Target was using as a pretext to not fire pharmacists who wanted to interpose their atavistic sexual morality between women and their doctors. To give credit where credit is due, at least one Wal-Mart refused to accept this silliness, and they have been upheld in […]
Within the span of five months in 2004-2005 remakes of two “classic” science-fiction series entered their regular seasons. The first regular episode of the “re-envisioned” Batt
The recent story about how not having access to Plan B is likely to lead to more abortions reminds me about this telling statistic, which appeared in the last Harper‘s index: Percentage of U.S.
Most of the evidence suggests grounds for cautious optimism about the prospects for some sort of deal with Iran. Already, some (admittedly obscure) right-wing bloggers are crying foul over the carrots on the table. Others trumpet Bush’s “diplomatic coup.” What should we make of all this? First, liberals shouldn’t begrudge giving credit to the Bush […]
In his writings on society and education in first decades of the 20th century, Hans Reichenbach argued that structural change would most likely have to be led by the emerging German middle class. The
Linda Hirshman, guest-blogging at TAPPED, has an interesting follow-up post about the debunked Newsweek scare story on marriage. One downside of the fact that most of the women got married is that man
Matt’s argument here can be engaged with on a couple levels. Certainly, there’s no question–even granting that it generally takes at least 2 viewings to sort these things out–that this season has been the weakest by a significant margin, and I’ll even concede that for the first time The Sopranos is somewhat inferior to Deadwood […]
I say we follow the lead of the Senate GOP leaders. Their move to bring up gay marriage now is fantastic. Ok, it’s so transparently political that’s it absurd, but we all need some absurdi
Shorter Captain Ed: You know what would be really neat? A constitutional amendment that would guarantee that judges would never make decisions I disagree with (you know, “mischief” involvi