Corey Robin makes a nice point, linking up conservertarian defenses of the Virginia mandatory rape law with von Mises's sexism. Admittedly, McArdle and Cowen are making somewhat different arguments, and yet they're both strongly rooted in this ignoble tradition. McArdle just straightforwardly thinks that this...
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Great catch by Susan of Texas, as Megan McArdle shares some thoughts about abortion regulation in a comments thread. [via Mr. Bogg.] Let's start with this: I think that abortion.
The oft-made analogy between Tebow and Jeremy Lin is idiotic for one reason above all -- Lin has been good. The Knicks have been on a streak, despite an injury.
OK, we've hit the big time now.
This Tyler Cowen nonsense is a classic example of a conservative rhetorical technique that is particularly annoying. I'm not sure what to call it -- the strawman tu quoque? It's.
Ta-Nehisi Coates points us to this President's Day question, and also gives us the right answer. I've discussed this before, but Grant is extremely underrated. Teaching the Presidency this semester,.
Now this is first-rate commenting.
Excellent: The Obama administration has announced that it will not defend laws that prevent married same-sex couples from obtaining military benefits. In a letter to Congress today, Attorney General Eric.
Col. Mustard is very impressed with Pat Buchanan's claims that he has been "censored" and "blacklisted" by liberals who "stigmatize as racist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic any who contradict what George.
I would have to agree that, lacking the wisdom of Solomon, I cannot determine what's worse about this crap: the writing or the ideas. When you're doing a middlebrow Kim DuToit imitation, the bad ideas and bad prose are inseparable. In order to discourage you...
Irin Carmon's column on Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the potentially pioneering brief Nixon's Solicitor General Erwin "why should a mere woman get a law school space that properly belongs to.
Since I've been baited, I suppose I should point out that Santorum is almost certainly not going to win the Republican nomination, for reasons that should be obvious: Here are.