To expand on Matt’s point about this otherwise disturbingly excellent Peter Beinart column, it’s not merely that Stuart Taylor isn’t “normally sensible”; it’s that he exemplifies egregious double standards with respect to racial classifications. His long-standing, full-throated defense of racial profiling has always coexisted alongside the belief that even the mildest forms of affirmative action […]
Month: January 2010
If NBC fires Jeff Zucker, will his replacement be Matt Millen?
“I think there are a lot shysters in Hollywood, Reg.” Plainly, this would be the worst case of desecrating a great work of art in world history. I only wonder whether the project will be g
What’s especially rich about John Kyl holding up presidential appointments over trivial and irrelevant policy matters (in this case, a little stupid moralism about online gambling) is that Kyl was one of the many hacks who used to argue that the “advice and consent” clause of the Constitution solemnly required the Senate to give up […]
As conditions have deteriorated in Afghanistan in the past several years, academic and military specialists have paid greater attention to the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union invade
Kevin Drum likes the idea of not getting hysterical over every terrorist incident, but he’s got practical and theoretical objections to an approach that emphasizes the risk from terrorism is sta
Every spring, Patterson runs a policy simulation designed to illustrate the difficulty of operating an organization in the context of asymmetric and limited information. Every fall, I run a two hour mini-simulation designed to give students a sense of how the larger simulation will play out. In my first year, I did zombies; the year […]
Jets +2.5 at Bengals. I’m generally inclined to think “Never, ever, EVER back a crappy QB on the road” is a good rule. I’m inclined to make an exception, however, when 1)in a g
As I am wearing my Northern Ireland top today (coincidental, and I will not be wearing it come the NI v USA friendly) it seems appropriate to wade into this. At least the big story in the last week in
I think it’s a positive sign that the WSJ published this. On a related note, in the last two days fighter jets have been scrambled twice to “accompany” flights on which passengers became fractious in some unspecified but ultimately non-terroristic way. Does it really make everybody feel better that the USAF is apparently primed to […]
Jonah Goldberg looks to Domino’s Pizza to explain how the GOP might renew itself in 2010 and beyond. I have been staring at the computer for ten minutes now, trying to think of something to add
Friday Daddy Blogging… Elisha and Miriam