For me, one of the most difficult political questions is the ethics of outing for political purposes. It presents a conflict between two important principles: 1)the the profound injustice of systematic discrimination against gay people and the immorality of public officials who are support it,...
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I'm sure our regular readers (if any) were looking forward to receiving the kind of in-depth, Geertzian interpretive analysis that only a long-time New York resident of two weeks could.
I must argue that my colleague, as well as the increasingly shrill Andrew Sullivan, have reached the right conclusion about the proposed constitutional amendments in the GOP platform for the wrong.
Hopefully you've been reading Balkanization, which has added commentary from two of the best constitutional scholars currently writing--Mark Graber and Mark Tushnet--to already excellent blog. (I wish they would come on permanently, creating a lefty version of Volokh.) Anyway, Prof. Balkin has been poring over the...
If there is one thing I've gotten sick of in the last four years, it's having to pick my jaw up off the floor every so often, after it fall.
The letter Economist editor Clive Crook wrote to Brad DeLong makes use of a ploy that, while a familiar tactic of wingnut hacks, is particularly dismaying coming from an intelligent conservative: He.
Lindsay Beyerstein draws our attention to a truly dismaying attempt to Johnny Cash as a symbol for Republican politics. Appalling. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner...
The decline in affirmative action over the last several years should be a major cause for concern for anyone interested in social justice. We often hear from rightwingers how affirmative.
I use this space to vent about the various pathologies of the New York Times pretty regularly, but I'll say this for that particular: in the post-Janet "Titanic is the movie.
When I was in Montreal on Wednesday, two justices were appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court. Media coverage has focused on the fact that 1)the Canadian court now has an apparently unprecedented gender near balance, with 4 of the 9 justices being women, and 2)both justices...
In a coup for the blogosphere, fafblog obtains a rare interview with the President.
I'm too lazy to find the link, but a little while ago, Matt Yglesias posted something about how he preferred Fox News to CNN, as it had more real actual.