In the course of what amounts to an aesthetic argument on behalf of the Louisville Cardinals, Dennis Berman argues: This should be a moment of elation for Kentucky fans. Their team plays a ruthlessly beautiful brand of basketball. Their starting lineup is better than the New Jersey Nets. And yet there is something lurking underneath: […]
Month: March 2012
Rich Lowry. See also. To write something that transparently stupid in complete sentences is a real achievement in its own way.
On this week’s Foreign Entanglements, Matt Duss speaks with Ben Birnbaum regarding indications that Israel may not strike Iran:
Nocera with yet more good stuff on the NCAA Cartel: It was amusing this week to watch Emmert trot out “the collegiate model” as he was confronted with the reality of the “one and done” freshman. “One and done” freshmen — or players who have no interest in college and are enrolling only until they […]
Robert Wright is wondering why the Affordable Care Act wasn’t just a straightforward use of the tax power, and his analysis is of course focused on the median votes of the Senate and the leverag
Your uterus will belong to the state.
(It goes without saying that this is another one of those posts.) Poor self-defeating Pete, trying his best to become the very Draper whose misery’s invisible to him. Remember when Pete had hope, and director John Slattery hammered the possibility of it home via reverse shots? How Pete saw Peggy longing for him: Returned her implicit, medium […]
Given the amount of pushback, I decided to make my argument about legitimacy and the ACA at much greater length. A lot of people seem to think that this particular politically controversial decision w
I’ve been around the intertubes long enough not to be surprised by the fact that many people are happy to feed trolls whenever an interesting discussion threatens to break out. But I’d lik
Akhil Reed Amar is making sense: I start with the Constitution here. It’s the power to regulate interstate commerce. Is this a regulation? Yes. It’s just a regulation like regulating a well-regulated militia with a mandate. Is this interstate? Yes. And I’ve given you reasons why. Third, is it commercial? Yes, it’s purely about who […]
Jon Cohn has a good post about a subject that’s on a lot of minds given the hostile reception the ACA received at the Supreme Court this week: judicial legitimacy. It’s worth unpacking
John Boyd is rolling in his grave… A U.S. Air Force scientific advisory board is urging the service to create specialized medical teams to focus on pilots with hypoxia-like symptoms and form a m