Category: djw
Ross Douthat is doubling down on the notion that intentionally choosing to have less children constitutes “decadence”: But the modern path has many possible endpoints, and it seems like an abdicat
If you haven’t yet seen it, Corey Robin, Chris Bertram, and Alex Gourevich have a magnificent, epic post at CT on freedom and the workplace in the context of an ongoing conversation with the bl
I have a weird sort of idea that I should somehow avoid letting my snark:serious post ratio exceed 1:1, so I’ve been feeling mildly guilty about this little indulgence with nothing to balance it
David Boaz of the CATO institute published an article last week about the relationship of the libertarian vision of freedom with the (American) past. I presume he meant it to serve as a corrective to
One curious line of reasoning used by many who defend appalling exercises like Confederate History month is to attempt to muddy the waters by observing that Lincoln, the Republicans, or “the Nor
When this blog was launched nearly six long years ago, it was a Seattle-based blog, as all three ‘founders’ were graduate students in the political science department at the University of
Glenn Greenwald has a nice catch here, on Matt Welch’s egregious hackery. Calling a document traditionally labeled a report a report ‘lying’ is pretty rich, but the larger issue is,
In the thread to the post below, Scott P. suggests denying felons the right to vote is consistent with social contract theory. I think that’s probably true for some but not all versions of socia
- Teevee open thread: “In a room full of Timothy McVeighs, he kind of looks like Roosevelt” edition
- Music Notes
- The Horror… The Horror…
- On the edge
- Events Moving Quickly In Israel
- “I call you an idiot and you shut up”: the Free Speech Ballad of Kyle Duncan and Matt Taibbi
- Putin Threatens To Put Nuclear Weapons In Belarus
- Omnibus Spam Trash Post
- Right wing paranoia and the Covid vaccines
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,318