Even after a tipping point, the status quo will always have its defenders. Jon Chait, for example, has a defense of the practice of banning third-party payments to NCAA players: Oops, wait, it's actually here. You may not be surprised to discover that I find...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Sometimes there is a powerful sign that you've chosen the wrong profession. If you're an editor and you greenlighted a story about how people raped in prison secretly enjoy it,.
Unfortunately, because of the academic bent of our masthead most of my colleagues are too busy driving expensive but ugly cars, lounging on their yachts on the Riviera, washing beluga.
I'm as up for some Stanley Fish-bashing as anybody, but this is deeply weird: Fish’s importance resides mainly in that he is an exemplar of recent academic trends. He chiefly represents himself—he does that quite well—but he may also represent something of the postmodern academic...
Sure, maybe Alex Rodriguez is history's greatest monster, not least because he's not only guilty of using PEDs (some of which aren't even really drugs but whatever) but of the.
Again, the fact that he would sometimes sign (and sometimes not sign) decent legislation if Congress put it on his desk doesn't mean he wasn't a hateful crackpot.
As many of you knew while reading the post below, this group would consist of people who follow Maureen Dowd's work. And that sampler doesn't even include her epic bungling in the 2000 campaign. Meanwhile, MoDo would also like you to know that Bill Clinton,...
I have an article up at the Prospect about the filibuster and its defenders. (Spoiler: the filibuster is awful.) This time, I wanted to note in particular that it doesn't.
After Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, I was cautiously optimistic that his sentence would therefore be reasonable. This turns out to have been very.
Seriously, if you've going to pass over a very qualified woman to lead the Fed on the grounds that she's not a team player, and the alternative is the famously modest and deferential Larry Summers, you might as well just say a penis is a...
Long live bipartisanship! Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who has filled a secret court that oversees surveillance almost entirely with Republican-appointed judges, has named Judge José A. Cabranes, a.
You may remember Mark Judge from various columns in which racism and utter asininity fight to a standstill in a battle the reader inevitably loses. In today's column, Judge argues.