I, for one, welcome the return of the word "liberal" to something more closely approximating its political theory meaning. I've spent far, far too much time explaining to undergraduates that when political theorists and international relations theorists use the word liberal they mean something much...
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Since at least 1980 -- with the infamous Reagan campaign ad claiming that that Ayatollah Khomeini wanted Carter to win a second term -- it's become an article of faith.
I have a lot of problems with Amy Sullivan's recent piece about the opportunities allegedly presented by David Kuo's new book. First of all, I reject her entire premise that.
Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum is an odd entry into the pantheon of Kentucky heroes:Most of them, however, know him as Sheik Mo, a horseman who for nearly 25 years has arrived each year at Blue Grass Airport by private jumbo jet and has spent...
I understand that the presidential taint-tasters at Powerline are beyond rescue, but is it so unreasonable to expect a trio of hacks at least to agree on some sort of.
John Cole notes a profoundly embarrassing installment in the conservative war on aesthetics by Erick Erickson, who mocks the "'it's just fiction' defense" of Jim Webb." (Next, those crazy liberals.
Via Juan Cole, we read of a minister from Houston who is running around the country insisting that Republicans need to be defeated because George W. Bush is delaying the Second Coming; this runs upstream against the usual premillennialist insistence that the End Times are...
The more I read, the more I'm dubious about the apparent coming increase in gender segregation in K-12 schools. Neil reminds us of The Happy Feminist's terrific post this summer.
Waterboarding--now officially endorsed by the Vice President of the United States (whether his lackeys lie about it or not)--is, in fact, torture. Lederman and Balkin explain in detail. I also.
K-Lo's attempts to convince herself that Rick Santorum can win are pretty sad. Still--particularly since she seems to realize its futility on some level--I don't think that she can hold a candle to Time-Approved Real Clear Politics' prediction of the 2000 elections on November 6,...
Erik identifies the most objectionable thing offered up by a Hitchens in his New Yorker profile; he's become pathetic enough that it's hard to dislike him entirely. I like Mimi.
I think I can speak for nearly everyone in wishing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a happy 50th birthday (which he would be celebrating, of course, if he abided by the Gregorian rather.