This is a little story about a top high school football recruit whose life seems to be falling apart for all too common reasons. Of course you can multiply this story by literally a million similar, but completely invisible cases. The only reason anybody will...
Author: Paul Campos
Did this month-old MIT study get much attention when it was released? I don't recall hearing anything about it, and given that it more or less predicts The End of.
Following up on Dave's observations regarding doubts about the health benefits of moderate drinking:(1) The politics of epidemiology are most obvious when you see people treat relatively weak correlations from.
Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler stroll down Memory Lane at Time magazine, where moral panic isn't a sociological concept -- it's an exciting brand of contemporary journalism. I was at the "obesity summit" Balko references in re the last cover, as pretty much the lone...
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.Also, Jon Chait on why people Glenn Reynolds need to learn it's actually possible to be right wing and still hate Jews.
If radical Muslims had carried out terrorist attacks in Kansas and Washington DC over the past five days, we might be trying to pass legislation giving the president the legal.
Following up on Scott's post, Potter Stewart was famously derided for describing "obscenity" as something that can't be pinned down by formal definition, but which nevertheless can be subject to a "you know it when you see it" test.The mocking of this view always struck...
There's a great little exchange at the beginning of the Godfather II, when the corrupt senator is trying to shake down Michael Corleone. The senator makes a point of pronouncing.
. . . and I said nothing because I had an Armenian name.Beside the general weirdness involved in asking what the protocol for pronouncing someone's name is, (how about "like.
Assuming Sotomayor is confirmed, the SCOTUS is going to have only one Protestant justice, along with six Catholics and two Jews. (And Stevens appears to be the most nominal of Protestants, as he doesn't list himself as a member of any particular denomination).Given that for...
One problem with pointing out that if torture and preventative detention are such nifty tools in the fight to keep Americans "safe" why aren't we using them against common murderers,.
This is a sincere question. I'm not a particularly courageous person by any means, but I can say with considerable confidence that I've never felt any actual fear of terrorism..