I’m not sure which of the many obviously idiotic arguments in the latest demonstration of utter cluelessness by Mark Penn, Union Buster (TM) is the very dumbest. But I think I’m going to have to go with his assertion that the socially liberal/fiscally conservative view is underrepresented in American politics. How a pollster who seems […]
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This rather odd recent article about the novelist Irène Némirovsky is a good example of a journalistic technique I can’t stand: allowing people to respond to uncited “critics” with
Although Brian Leiter beat me to it, this David Bernstein post is such a remarkable piece of work that I can’t resist piling on. Angry about the possibility that someone might be criticized
Holy Joe Lieberman, America’s last honest man and second most important arbiter of National Integritude after Bill Bennett. (See also here and here and here.)
Dan Yoder is leaving Facebook, and implores us to “join him.” He has almost a dozen reasons why. Some of them are even good reasons. He’s not alone. And more and more of us, disencha
Ernie Harwell, R.I.P.
This is according to a new policy brief out from the Belfer Center at Harvard, in which Monica Duffy Toft details a study of 137 civil wars fought from 1940-2007. Toft finds that more civil wars are e
Did John McCain strenuously object when Scott Roeder was read his Miranda rights? If not, I wonder what criteria McCain is using to determine which American terrorists are entitled to their consti
Apparently having run out of human beings, the Philadelphia Inquirer has given a column to John Yoo. And, if you’re a glass-one-twelfth-full kind of person, you could acknowledge that it’s much better to see Yoo lightly re-writing Manuel Miranda blast faxes than applying his specious arguments to defending arbitrary detention and torture in an official […]
As part of her excellent take on the racist email send by a student at Harvard Law School, Jill identifies another excellent example of Sarah Palin’s theory of free speech, i.e. that the First A
Shorter Roman Polanski: The only way to obtain justice for the woman I raped when she was a 13-year-old is to let me off for pleading guilty and then fleeing the jurisdiction, although if you look car