Tom Scocca’s defense of snark as a justified response to smarm is, you know, brilliant, necessary, stuff like that there. A teaser: Over the past year or two, on the way to writing this essay, I’ve accumulated dozens of emails and IM conversations from friends and colleagues. They send links to articles, essays, Tumblr posts, […]
Month: December 2013
The West has reinvigorated its war on wolves and the Obama Administration has sadly capitulated to Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, in what is yet another example of its poor policy toward public lands th
I have some thoughts on a new report on policy proposals to address the American scandal of mass incarceration.
Excellent post from Dybbuk at OTLSS on a new “initiative” from the Law School Admissions Council –the agency that administers the LSAT — designed to entice high school students and first and second year undergraduates “particularly but not exclusively those from ethnically and racially diverse backgrounds” into eventually enrolling in law school, via images suggesting […]
My criticism of most 3rd party political campaigns are well known. I see them, personified by the Nader campaigns, as quixotic attempts every four years to show left-wing anger with the Democratic Par
The Project on Student Debt has just released a study, indicating that 71% of 2012 graduates of non-profit colleges and universities graduated with student debt, and that on average these students bor
Johnathan Bernstein has an addition to my recent series of posts on health care reform: One key point that Lemieux doesn’t mention this time: in one sense, this really isn’t about 2009 at all. It’s about 2007 and 2008, when the three leading Democratic presidential candidates converged on essentially the same plan (with Obama famously […]
This week’s Diplomat column examines the implications of the diffusion of precision strike: The concern apparent in Watts’ monograph is the increasing lethality of Chinese precision-strike sys
I get atypically angry — seriously pissed off — at the discourse surrounding gun control in the United States. This, in part, explains the colourful language I employed while digesting the
Today’s winner: Katie Couric.
I was sad to read about the death of Judy Rodgers. The Zuni Cafe Cookbook has long been one of my favorites, and I’ve been able to visit the namesake restaurant several times (including on my ho
I’ve been waiting for Dahlia Lithwick to take on the argument that corporations can “exercise” religion (and hence can claim exemptions from laws that don’t even significantly