Well, had I known that a quickie post would lead to an infestation of trolls whose arguments make Althouse's C+ junior high school civics class essays about the "marketplace of ideas" (in which there are immediate winners and losers! Like voting day on American Idol!) ...
Month: February 2011
It is indeed well-known that Robert Wright and I are among the most powerful people in American politics, with the power to "suppress" someone's free speech by suggesting that a.
One big problem in America today is that people like Glenn Beck are spouting a lot of bizarre conspiratorial paranoid nonsense in "respectable" high-profile media settings, because their employers have.
Since we seem to be getting some Althouse defenders in comments here, I suppose I should expand on a couple points: There are, indeed, "free speech" principles that go beyond simple government censorship. When people are fired for expressing political views or having political associations...
Obviously, it's a good thing that the particularly appalling language has been excised, but it shouldn't be forgotten that the "arbitrarily deny poor women access to essential health care" bill.
...and I assume, given the human condition, that my co-bloggers/cob-loggers agree. So please, given what you know about what I/we like, please recommend some blogs you think I/we'd like that.
...go read this long and immensely distressing piece by Emily Bazelon about the scientific and legal perils of diagnosing and prosecuting cases of Shaken Baby Syndrome. Researchers have known for quite some time -- see this 2004 BMJ article, for example -- that some of...
Dan Snyder responds to an excellent article documenting his monumental dickishness by filing monumentally dickish lawsuit and trying to get the writer fired.
Apparently, former Reagan administration solicitor general Charles Fried didn't get the memo about John Marshall sharing the constitutional vision of George Wallace. Communists, invading the Reagan administration!
At WPR, I give some thought to how a shift in Egypt's political orientation might matter for the region militarily: What would an Egyptian army look like under a democratic regime? In the short term, the transformation would almost certainly be disruptive. The Iranian Revolution...
Shorter Ann Althouse: If you are not receiving millions of dollars a year and a broadcast platform from the News Corporation to put forward your ideas, your rights to free.
Apparently my strategery of avoiding blizzards by moving to upstate New York has stopped working.