The so-over choice of wrap rather than bread sure is fascinating, but I can't fully evaluate Obama's foreign policy choices until I know what's on his iPod. And I can't believe that we didn't get a more in-depth evaluation of the undoubtedly un-American condiment choices.
Author: Scott Lemieux
K.C. Johnson endorses the idea that people should be denied honorary disagrees if their political opinions about Israel are inconsistent with K.C. Johnson's. This is apparently true even if the.
Shorter Ann Althouse: It's good that Barack Obama was elected president, or he'd still be making the same arguments as Noam Chomsky.
A reader alerted us to this amazingly creepy National Review piece about Steven Tyler's decision to use marriage an especially gross grant of legal guardianship to legalize a relationship that otherwise would have been statutory rape, and concludes that he's a victim because his barely-adolescent...
Obviously, if Weisenfeld won't do the right thing and jump from the CUNY board of trustees -- a position he's demonstrated beyond dispute that he's unfit to hold -- Cuomo.
Half shorter/Half Verbatim Tim Pawlenty: "I'm sorry that I once had a halfway rational position on climate change. I will try to avoid ever being rational again."
Shorter Niall Ferguson: "I find the ideas of LGM's most dimwitted trolls fascinating, and would like to subscribe to their newsletter."
The Pataki-appointed clown chiefly responsible for denying Tony Kushner an honorary degree from John Jay speaks: But Mr. Wiesenfeld interrupted and said the question was offensive because “the comparison sets.
I think this settles the question.
As a follow-up to Dahlia Lithwick's excellent recent piece about the proliferation of state anti-abortion restrictions, I have a new Prospect column arguing that while in some ways these restrictions challenge the Supreme Court doctrine, the bulk of the regulations are all too consistent with...
Tony Kushner was denied an honorary degree by CUNY trustees for insufficient Likudnism. If there was a contest among the trustees to see who could commit the most egregious breach.
I suppose proposing this is like asking for a unicorn farm, but John Paul Stevens is right about what an appropriate response to Connick. v. Thompson would look like: Stevens.