Shorter Verbatim some Economist hack, on The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism: “Unlike Mr Thomas, Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains. This is not history; it is advocacy.” Similarly, there […]
Month: September 2014
Last week I did an interview on airpower and stuff with the Buter. Check it out.
I’m a lifelong Seahawks fan, but a fairly casual and not particularly analytical NFL fan. So perhaps someone who knows the league better than I would care to explain why the Seahawks are longer
The D.C. Circuit will hear Halbig en banc, and in the order vacated this decade’s answer to Bush v. Gore. Since the arguments for not hearing Halbig en banc were almost as terrible as the arguments made by the Halbig plurality itself, this is not exactly shocking. Of course, there will be no particular urgency […]
Not the Onion: The New York Yankees announced Tuesday that the team will wear a patch of Derek Jeter’s final-season logo on all player hats and uniforms from Sunday, the day that the shortstop w
Jessica Williams has the final word on catcalling and sexual harassment.
Some thoughts at the Diplomat on Japan’s entry into the diesel sub market: Germany, France, and Russia have long dominated the existing market for diesel-electric submarines. The German Type 209 submarine serves in over a dozen navies, with more than 60 boats currently in service. While the design stems from the 1960s, the newest boats […]
This Rolling Stone profile of Willie Nelson is pretty great, even if magazines should not refer to their own work as “definitive,” which is the equivalent of talking about your own integri
Liel Leibovitz has an extended defense of UIUC’s firing of Steven Salaita. Let’s start with this: Another tweet applied just as much nuance in declaring, “Zionists: transforming ‘anti-
Las Vegas casinos invariably give me the creeps. (My entry in a Saddest Place on Earth contest was “Nine PM Christmas Eve, all you can eat buffet, Caesar’s Palace”). I can only imagine the unspeakable dread evoked by a few nights in Atlantic City. Revel Casino Hotel opened with a bang a little more than […]
Horning in on Damon Linker’s turf, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry offers another defense of the “this time is different” argument regarding Christianity and mainstream american social and pol
France has halted the delivery of RFS Vladivostok, first of two Mistral class amphibious assault ships: The French government can not go ahead with the planned delivery of a first of two Mistral helic