Edroso on Paglia:I see Salon is still publishing Camille Paglia. Why, I wonder? It can't be respect for her prose, which reads like yammerings that a cranked-up MFA candidate might read into a digital recorder for her overdue thesis as she speed-walks around the quad....
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Adam discusses Maureen Dowd's lunacy so that -- this time at least -- I don't have to.
Seems like a good choice. Certainly, among Washington state politicians I always preferred him to Gary Locke...
William Saletan.I take it that for most our audience the analogy between Obama repealing Bush's ban on stem-cell research (or, at least, defending this policy in terms Saletan does not approve of) and Dick Cheney's policy of arbitrary torture is so specious that to restate...
No, really, quit while you're behind.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court considered a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires a federal remedy if a members of a minority group has "less opportunity than other members.
Steve, with respect to a bunch of social reactionaries being shocked, shocked that Obama would follow through on his explicit campaign promises regarding the abortion gag rule and stem cell research, asks:Obama has weighed in on some culture-war issues, lifting the global gag-rule, beginning the...
One thing of note to add to this analysis of the Swiss health care system is that, as Ellen Immergut has pointed out, Switzerland is comparable to the U.S. in.
Via Hilzoy and Somerby, I'm afraid that this is not from The Onion:My taste for luxury has evolved somewhat—I'm not nearly as taken with the M&Ms in the mini bar—but.
Rod Dreher. In addition to the obvious, if you read the article that so shocked Dreher for reasons other than the people being butchered with swords in their beds, is that the the alleged "bisexual culture" he adduces at a suburban Dallas high school is...
Although with a couple completely evidence-free convictions overturned, and the main verdict upheld essentially because of extreme deference to the jury. The real problem here is the vagueness of the.