I'm as up for some Stanley Fish-bashing as anybody, but this is deeply weird: Fish’s importance resides mainly in that he is an exemplar of recent academic trends. He chiefly represents himself—he does that quite well—but he may also represent something of the postmodern academic...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Sure, maybe Alex Rodriguez is history's greatest monster, not least because he's not only guilty of using PEDs (some of which aren't even really drugs but whatever) but of the.
Again, the fact that he would sometimes sign (and sometimes not sign) decent legislation if Congress put it on his desk doesn't mean he wasn't a hateful crackpot.
As many of you knew while reading the post below, this group would consist of people who follow Maureen Dowd's work. And that sampler doesn't even include her epic bungling in the 2000 campaign. Meanwhile, MoDo would also like you to know that Bill Clinton,...
I have an article up at the Prospect about the filibuster and its defenders. (Spoiler: the filibuster is awful.) This time, I wanted to note in particular that it doesn't.
After Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, I was cautiously optimistic that his sentence would therefore be reasonable. This turns out to have been very.
Seriously, if you've going to pass over a very qualified woman to lead the Fed on the grounds that she's not a team player, and the alternative is the famously modest and deferential Larry Summers, you might as well just say a penis is a...
Long live bipartisanship! Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who has filled a secret court that oversees surveillance almost entirely with Republican-appointed judges, has named Judge José A. Cabranes, a.
You may remember Mark Judge from various columns in which racism and utter asininity fight to a standstill in a battle the reader inevitably loses. In today's column, Judge argues.
So, if I understand Bud Selig: Deliberate attempt to injure: 5 games. (And that's 5 games for a pitcher, so really it's more like zero games.) Legally "obstructing" an investigation you have no contractual obligation to comply with: 162 games, $25 million, more than three...
Shorter Antonin Scalia: Nuts to these judicial activists with their phony "gays and lesbians exist" and "14th Amendment" this and "4th Amendment" that. Next these judicial activists will tell you.
Shorter Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly: Our program of using racial profiling to make arbitrary stops and frisks isn't racial profiling, and it should be allowed to continue because racial.