So a group of Swiss biologists and philosophers produce a report suggesting that humans perhaps shouldn't arbitrarily destroy plants. While the report was commissioned by the Swiss government, and though it attempts to flesh out certain concepts -- like "dignity" and "living beings" -- that...
Month: May 2008
Hilzoy:Clinton is presently making a big deal about the fact that she is "a fighter". After this primary season, I don't think there can be any doubt about her willingness.
MoDo:Hillary and her posse pressed hard on their noble twin themes of emasculation and elitism.Yes. Hillary's theme.
Further proof that Henry Wade (of Roe v. Wade -- and other fame and/or infamy) was a total asshole.
In mid-2002, Benjamin Orbach traveled to Jordan. Orbach was 27 at the time, and wanted to improve his Arabic language skills. This is hardly unusual; a handful of Patterson students.
Hans Kristensen has a good post on the inactivity of Russian SSBNs:The number of deterrence patrols conducted by Russia’s 11 nuclear-powered ballistic missiles submarines (SSBNs) decreased to only three in.
Let me second Yglesias' recommendation of this Dave Meyer post on signaling. Meyer concentrates on the public relations aspect of signaling behavior in a democracy, but here are some assumptions that have to hold for a strategy of "signaling", such as invading small countries in...
So, I am studying for my last-ever law school exam. And it's in professional responsibility, which, for you non-lawyers (and I hope there are lots of you), is an ABA.
For lack of a better topic to post on, here are my final exam questions. In both cases the students had roughly two hours to write on their choice of.
The Jeffrey Goldberg method. It's a rhetorical style of profound morality!
What Baze hath wrought.Good to know that Texas is getting all fired up to execute a dude in a wheelchair.
Lyndon Johnson, in a televised address given on 2 May 1965, just after the United States invaded the Dominican Republic to thwart an alleged communist revolt:To those who fight only.