Matthew O'Brien is making sense. There's an additional consideration here as well. The existence of an ongoing boy's club, like the most senior positions at the Federal Reserve, should create a strong presumption in favor of a fully qualified woman all things being equal. Things are...
I just finished re-reading Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio for the first time in many years. While I've been in Mexico, I've reacquainted myself with the literature of the Gilded Age,.
Very cool interview with Dr. James Andrews on how modern medicine might treat some famous injuries: There's no question that there has been a lot of advancement to fix that.
Expanding on my brief thoughts from the weekend, I have a piece at the Prospect noting that the Filner scandal is a "violating women's rights" scandal, not a "sex scandal". The bottom line, since it discusses another case that merits more attention: The conflation of consensual...
I've spent July in southern Mexico. The region today is defined by immigration. Traveling to one of the towns my wife studies, way up in the Mixteca, an indigenous and.
Like the role Ommegang has played in fighting fracking in New York, I am glad to see Bell's Brewery take on the tar sands company Enbridge after an oil spill.
The New York Times continues its run of articles on the garment trade in Bangladesh but once again I am frustrated with them. Saturday's article focused on the Bangladeshi garment capitalists, essentially the middlemen between the apparel companies and the workers. These are not good actors....
I now find myself with both Albert Pujols and A-Rod on my AL-only fantasy roster. With one DL spot, do I... Waive Pujols and pray? Waive A-Rod and enjoy a.
Since this is now my personal Xanga/livejournal/Myspace page -- and because the recommendations on the podcast thread were so exquisite I'm already listening to them while packing -- I thought.
I must give Hogan credit for expressing most of what you need to know about the genre of abortion concern trolling in one sentence: Look, if liberals won’t finally resolve this issue by making impossible and unenforceable bargains with people who don’t exist, they have only...
Emmett Till in life and death Willie Reed On an August morning in 1955, Willie Reed was an 18-year-old sharecropper living in the Mississippi delta. While walking to a store,.
While generously tweeting my critique of his recent column on abortion, Ross Douthat declines to respond on the merits, arguing that "the intro paragraph reassures his liberal readers that I'm.