In the process of tepidly defending the indefensible, Rich Lowry gets something (mostly) right: Andrew Sullivan has been playing increasingly tendentious word games with the labels he applies to supporters and opponents of the FMA. Yesterday's version was particularly amusing. He said that the FMA may widen...
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In Slate today, more thoughts on Cosby's unfortunate recent remarks. Debra Dickerson doesn't really have all that much to say; this article meanders a fair bit but doesn't really seem to have.
On a whim, I went to see The Walkmen last night. My impressions: 1) They pretty much live up to the hype. I'm planning to pick up at least one of their.
Matt Yglesias with some analysis of who, electorally speaking, a terrorist attack in the coming months would help. It sounds reasonable enough, although I really don't think we have any good way of knowing--this is more or less uncharted waters. (And how is a summer/fall 04 terrorist...
I've signed up to go see it through Moveon at a house in my neighborhood on Sunday at 7:00. Anyone local who is interested in joining me, send me an.
This is about as sensible a response to this as I can imagine.
While I'm sure most of you don't need me to tell you this, last night's Daily Show interview with Wolf Blitzer was a real gem. Catch the reply today if you missed it. Wolf came on with a toy model of the CNN election coverage...
The Poor Man provides a handy advance summary of my forthcoming oral defense.
Did Bush and co. put pressure on intel analysts to come to the right kind of conclusions about Iraq and WMDs? The SCLM dutifully reports that the SSCI concludes that.
William F. Buckley Jr. in the New York Times Magazine: NYT:It's not fair to blame the press. Some of your most inflammatory comments have been made in your essays and columns. In the 50's, you famously claimed that whites were culturally superior to African-Americans. WFB:The point I...
To be the millionth blogger to post about the DeLong/Ehrenreich dispute, I agree with David that DeLong's criticism was in general overwrought. While I do think that some elements of.
Brad DeLong offers a dissenting voice from the enthusiasm we've been seeing (and voicing ourselves) about Ehrenreich: I agree that Barbara Ehrenreich is a very smart and graceful writer, a keen analyst.