Background: John Rawls wrote an undergrad thesis on theology when he was deeply religious. He also wrote an unpublished essay in the 90’s on the role religion played in his thought. Thomas Nagel and Josh Cohen are now publishing these essays along with an interpretive essay on Rawls and religion. The latter is available in […]
Month: April 2009
In comments, LP and geo requested a post about this subject. My purpose is not to make the case; I’m a poor candidate for such a task as I’m not persuaded. In the current debate between Scott and
See IntLawGrrls and Publius. Meanwhile, Weigel has an invaluable piece explaining the origins of the smear campaign.
This is, indeed, horrible news for an organization that has seen more than its share of same. Being in my vacation quasi-cocoon, I hadn’t even heard about it until the moment of silence in the seventh inning at Great American yesterday. RIP.
In what surely must rank as one of the most ingenious draft-day choices since the ascent of Sam Bowie to the NBA, I actually paid several dollars for the pitching services of a guy who used to be Carl
Shorter Verbatim Camille Paglia: “When I first heard “Barack the Magic Negro” I found it very daring and funny…It was timely and had the shock of the new — exactly like L
It’s hard to respond to Paul’s question-begging-all-the-way-down response here, and it leaves most of my prior arguments untouched. But especially since he seems to have stopped implying that there was something uniquely bad about the Iowa court’s ruling or that it was in some way comparable to the more singular lawlessness of Bush v. Gore […]
West: 1. LAAOA 2. OAK 3. SEA 4. TEX I would really, really like to think that the gig is finally up for the Angels, whose record last year is highly misleading. And, certainly, with the injuries in th
The court’s decision can be defended, in theory, on various grounds. (1) The state’s constitution actually required the court to rule as it did. I’m not going to debate this claim an
This is really funny: ACORN is “gate busting” Tea Parties nationwide. These far-left goons are attending them and mispresenting their allegiance. They are getting petitions signed, misrepresenting them as opposition to the Obama agenda. They explain something different than that written on the petition. More fraud, and lies from Obama Acorn people. Please be careful […]
Ed Morrissey: There has always been an air of absurdity about the opposition to missile-defense systems. No one argues that missiles aren’t a threat, but somehow defending ourselves against it is il
Neither house of Iowa’s legislature has the slightest interest in a constitutional amendment overriding the state Supreme Court’s perfectly plausible holding that denying same-sex couples