With some wingers all-too-expectedly taking it upon themselves to lecture people about how they should grieve, it's worth noting again that the outrage over the Wellstone memorial was not merely unseemly but largely fraudulent, with erstwhile reasonable, moderate, thinking person's conservative Chistopher Caldwell particularly disgracing himself....
Via the incomparable Carl Pyrdum: My only worry is that in all this hubbub, the indexical value of “blood libel” is being overlooked. The reason why we need a special.
Alyssa Rosenberg's response to my earlier post reminded me that I never got around to finishing the discussion of Blowup I started in this one, but before doing so I.
78-year old Nancy Smith is one of two individuals arrested last year after crossing onto the Ft. Benning military base in Georgia as part of a protest against the School of the Americas, a military training academy notorious for the human rights abuses of its graduates:...
Republican operative Glenn Reynolds. I don't mean to "blood libel" him, but when your arguments are dumb enough to get picked up by Sarah Palin... Updated [by SEK]:
In my latest WPR column, I try to think through specifically who gets hurt by the migration of retired generals and admirals into the defense industry: For a variety of.
Huh. My answer to this question would be "of course." Do you think it is ever justified for citizens to take violent action against the government, or is it never justified? Republican 28% yes, 64% no Democrat 11% yes, 81% no Independent 11% yes, 81% no...
Do it for Belgium! One of Belgium's best-known actors, Benoit Poelvoorde, has urged his fellow citizens not to shave again until the country finally forms a government. Poelvoorde, star of.
I arrived back on the island where I am currently based "yesterday" morning (January 11). I slept seven hours "last night", awaking at 11pm (GMT). I lecture in two hours.
Via Ian Millhiser, I am shocked and appalled by this un-American passage in Antonin Scalia's solo dissent today: The canon against superfluity is not a canon against verbosity. When a thought could have been expressed more concisely, one does not always have to cast about for...
Vesla Weaver and Amy Lerman have published a study in the American Political Science Review on the relationship between contact with the US criminal justice system and disaffection from US.
Sara Mead and Tom Scocca make a lot of good points about Amy Chua's dislikable, widely-discussed piece on "Chinese mothers." Aside from the stereotyping and assertions-without-evidence, what strikes me most.