Since this is a little long to be included in comments, a couple of quick points about the possibility of a pro-life feminism. The first thing to say is that the question is unanswerable; in some sense, it's up to Hugo Schwyzer to define his political...
Author: Scott Lemieux
In a recent article in which self-parody and self-congratulation fought each other to a draw, Prof. Reynolds made the following statement: The press has been in the tank for Kerry to.
Mark Kleiman is the first person I've seen to make this rather crucial point: Wouldn't it be astonishing if a major news organization turned out to have been as foolishly.
Tim Lambert has more on the article inexplicably discussed by the Times: The trouble with their study is that the economy was stronger under Clinton than under either Bush, so of course the reporting of the economy under Clinton was more positive. Lott and Hassett claim...
In the midst of another dissection of Michelle Malkin's book, In Defense of the Indefensible, David Neiwert coins a useful term for the most common form of conservative argument: Malkin, in fact,.
My colleague can hardly be blamed for missing the real pinnacle of Bobo's recent column--the thing was really a cornucopia of insipidity. But try to imagine that anybody would write.
Matthew Yglesias makes a crucial point that isn't made often enough: In other words, a second Bush term will not merely continue down the current unsustainable course -- it will speed us off the cliff faster than ever. You might think that our friendly war...
For me, one of the most difficult political questions is the ethics of outing for political purposes. It presents a conflict between two important principles: 1)the the profound injustice of.
I'm sure our regular readers (if any) were looking forward to receiving the kind of in-depth, Geertzian interpretive analysis that only a long-time New York resident of two weeks could.
I must argue that my colleague, as well as the increasingly shrill Andrew Sullivan, have reached the right conclusion about the proposed constitutional amendments in the GOP platform for the wrong reasons. It seems to me that a true Burkean--one who advocates caution, skepticism and moderation...
Hopefully you've been reading Balkanization, which has added commentary from two of the best constitutional scholars currently writing--Mark Graber and Mark Tushnet--to already excellent blog. (I wish they would come on.
The letter Economist editor Clive Crook wrote to Brad DeLong makes use of a ploy that, while a familiar tactic of wingnut hacks, is particularly dismaying coming from an intelligent conservative: He.