Glenn Greenwald is a profoundly dishonest person. In his article today, entitled “The Racism that Fuels the War on Terror,” Greenwald uses me as an example of someone who gives cover to the war on terror. Here’s the actual article I wrote which Greenwald uses as his evidence. Connor Friedersdorf writes the kind of political […]
Month: March 2013
Who are the real friends of coal miners? Like in the timber wars of the 1980s, an exploitative industry and its lackey politicians have claimed that the industry looks out for the miners against those
The author of the landmarks Gideon’s Trumpet and Make No Law, as well as a superb reporter and commentator on the Supreme Court, has passed away. I met him very briefly on a couple occasions, an
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the ongoing success of Republican attempts to keep qualified nominees off of the D.C. Circuit: That a mainstream Democratic nominee can’t receive a vote from the Senate while someone who believes the modern regulatory state to be unconstitutional can be confirmed conclusively illustrates the futility of […]
I still doubt that Obama backing same-sex marriage had any effect in terms of increasing public support. But one thing it did was to effectively commit the Democratic Party to supporting SSM.
Now this is a Yankees move I can approve! The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels are closing in on a trade that would send outfielder Vernon Wells and a large amount of cash to the Bronx, sources
Christopher Cameron has an interesting post at the U.S. Intellectual History blog about George Washington’s growing abolitionism. Historians ignored this side of Washington for a very long time, but in recent years, they have paid increasing attention to it. Washington certainly benefited from slavery and signed the 1793 Fugitive Slave Law, a weak law compared […]
I’m watching the BBC documentary The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, and you can too, for free: It’s interesting more for the historical anecdotes than the Nancy Grace-style murder-
If you haven’t read Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita’s Times editorial in support of gay marriage, do so. It’s another of the growing examples of professional athletes pushin
Michael Kranish’s story of how part of the home school lobby brought down the UN Disability Treaty is just fantastic: Then a witness named Michael Farris stunned many in the hearing room as he sought to demolish the arguments for the treaty. Farris was speaking in his role as the president of the Home School […]
Jeffrey Pilcher, the noted historian of food in Mexico, has a new book placing Mexican food in a global context. When thinking of a nation’s food, particularly one as laden with importance and h
I know you all, like myself, are celebrating Oregon’s dominating victory over St. Louis to advance to the Sweet 16 where they will no doubt crush Louisville.* So if you haven’t seen this N