The funny thing about Roger Kimball's ongoing campaign of complaining about the decline of academia and western civilization is that they come from a man who knows essentially nothing about anything. And the next time he makes an argument about how academia has no standards that...
I have a piece in TNR that tries to answer what ought to be a straightforward question: What percentage of graduates of the 198 ABA-accredited law schools are getting real.
... which hit the stands this evening via NYT, WAPO, the Telegraph and numerous other media outlets; courtesy of Wikileaks, many say. Interestingly, NYT reports Wikileaks was not responsible for.
If there was any question that the Yankees are the closest non-political party approximation to the Republican Party now in existence, the amount of bitching and moaning that follows any Rivera pitch eight inches off the plate not being called a strike settles the question. The...
We had a debate recently about whether my lack of interest in the royal family/wedding (or other famous-for-being famous people with an equal independent claim on people's attention, like the.
Exceedingly disappointing to see Rob Neyer pick the wrong side on Colby Lewis' choice to take a game off to participate in the birth of his second child: What if.
A new CBS/NY Times poll finds that 47% of Republican voters say Barack Obama was born outside the United States. (Only a third say he was born in this country, while another 22% say they don't know one way or another). This can be interpreted in...
Since I've seen some discussion on the Twitter today about whether Reid should force a vote on the Ryan destroy-Medicare-to-finance-upper-class-tax-cuts program (answer: "hell, yes"), I thought I'd highlight what is.
We have to start with this: MLB is not going to eliminate the wildcard. Given this, as I said at the time it seems pretty clear that a wildcard play-in.
Still not a war though. Interesting thoughts from former Pentagon analyst on the politics of drone warfare.
There are many ways to respond to the fact that The Shawshank Redemption is ranked #1 on the IMDB Top Movies chart. This is one of my favorites, because it.
"Mom, which is worse for the environment, making energy from coal or wood?" Admittedly this question is not as off the wall as many, but hey: (more…)