This Phoebe Maltz post (via Yglesias) raises some interesting issues. But more than anything, it reinforces my belief that "gentrification" is, at least as a normative concept, entirely worthless. (And, at least among progressives in Seattle and NYC, it seems to be used primarily as a...
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To return to a discussion of a couple of weeks ago, this is pretty cool. Obviously, tonight's double feature is a no-brainer, and ditto Treasure of the Sierra Madre (which I prefer to The.
Cynthia Gorney's repetition of contrarian-wisdom-so-frequently-offered-it's-conventional-wisdom reminds me that I owe a reply to Nathan Newman. Nathan offers a powerful response to my claim that social change produced through litigation doesn't produce more.
I have no particularly strong view with respect to the constitutionality of the execution of adolescents. I do feel strongly that arguments for categorical death penalty abolitionism based on the 8th Amendment are incorrect, but with respect to the more limited question the constitutional text...
Not exactly shorter Glenn Reynolds: "You lefties complained when I generalized the three-year old ravings of an obscure college professor as representing 'the Left.' But now I have found a group.
Prof. B notes the fact that Scalia used his dissent in Roper v. Simmons to mysteriously launch some spittle with respect to the Court's abortion jurisprudence. As William Saletan notes, this is doubly.
Fair warning: What follows is a post on constitutional reasoning by the member of this blog who doesn't know anything about it, not to be confused with the one who does. I've got little (OK, nothing) of substance to say about yesterday's Supreme Court decision...
The article on CNN that Atrios linked to also contained this: MSNBC declined 15% overall and 14% in primetime, while financial news channel CNBC declined 23% overall and 42% in primetime. It's.
In the comments to my post about the recent California prison segregation case, Mark Kleiman notes that my focus on Thomas and Scalia's misadventures in doctrinal bad faith sidestep the important.
With all due respect, I think that Ezra Klein is misreading the arguments being made about Goldwater's legacy. At least as I read Drum, Yglesias and DeLong, there's no contradiction between their position and that of Klein (or Schmitt.) An earlier iteration of the Yglesias/DeLong argument might clarify...
No, not another abortion post--that will be later today. Instead, so that it doesn't clutter up my 10-best list, a quick note about one of the best pictures of the.
An old Roy Edroso post makes a relevant point: The big news was the historic redress of an old, shameful shortcoming on Oscar's part. I speak of course of Randy Newman's.