...Clinton is in....I think Hilzoy has about the right take on the merits. I should also say that I don't think she has much chance of winning the Dem nomination; Kevin Drum disagrees.
Author: Scott Lemieux
Ezra presents a very useful summary of critiques of Charles Murray in light of his latest repellent op-ed. To add to this, I've put excerpts from the New Republic symposium.
Brad Plumer offers more evidence for Josh Marshall's thesis that McCain is dead. They're right. Essentially, McCain was always a longshot for the Republican nomination because (as 2000 demonstrated) he.
Submitted without comment, the opening grafs of a NYT "Homes" section article:FOR some people, the most elusive aspect of owning a vacation home that sits beyond big-city borders isn’t finding the time to enjoy it. It’s finding someone to service the deluxe appliances inside.“We called...
Shorter Glenn Reynolds and Don Surber: "Only Luddites believe that drug companies should disclose payoffs to doctors and advertising; everyone knows that if drug companies didn't make unlimited profits from.
I'm still behind, so it will be a little bit before I can get an arbitrarily numbered film list out (come to think of it, I haven't even done 2005.
OK, so the New York Times publishes a monumentally idiotic (and egregiously sexist) article about the fashion choices of female political leaders. No allegedly seriously blogger (with a tendency to invoke claims of sexism, if only as a spurious club to attack liberal opponents) would...
In TAPPED comments, Bob Somerby directs is to this 2002 op-ed from Virignia's newly elected Senator:Other than the flippant criticisms of our "failure" to take Baghdad during the Persian Gulf.
I note here that Al Gore's pre-war remarks hold up rather better than the predictions of the war's cheerleaders, despite attempts to claim that everyone was equally wrong. Atrios does.
Ezra points us to Julian Sanchez's excellent rebuttal to Megan McArdle's claim that critics of the war were just a wrong as the supporters. For my part, it's somewhat difficult to respond to McArdle's post, since not only does she argue strictly from anecdote but...
In light of the recent discussion about rape on campus, it's particularly worth reading Courtney Martin's article about this country's dearth of rational sex education and the extent to which.
From the recent Times article about attempts to turn Atlas Shrugged into a movie:Under Mr. Aglialoro’s sponsorship a succession of writers and producers developed at least four scripts. One writer.