Will Saletan has many of the annoying tics of the blue-state male abortion "centrist" that dominates editorial discourse on the topic, such as viewing national elections as referenda on abortion, and originating policies that prominent pro-choicers have been advocating for decades. His latest entry into the...
Media Czech:A straight-A student in Illinois was arrested for writing a violent essay in a creative writing class. It was an assignment in which the teacher specifically instructed the students.
It must be said that Ben Wittes's inevitable defense of Carhart II is somewhat less objectionable than his typical writing on the subject, if only by virtue of its incoherence..
Ralph Luker tapped LG&M with a Thinking Blogger Award" -- this in spite of the fact that (as he explains) we "beat the c**p out of me the first time I left a comment over there." I must have missed that thread, but Ralph's advice to...
Nicholas Lemann's Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, focuses on the activity of Adelbert Ames, a former Union officer who became governor of Mississippi during Reconstruction. Ames presided,.
I must concede that I have absolutely no idea who Kit Carson is. (Admittedly, I grew up in Canada--even my details about the Alamo are fuzzy--but Kieran says that's no.
A couple of minor caveats regarding Yglesias' discussion of the use of artillery in Iraq:1. There's a risk to taking the "American Way of War" a bit too seriously; the character and nature of the United States Army prior to 1900 is radically different than what...
USS Phoenix was the fifth of the Brooklyn class, a group of light cruisers designed in response to the Japanese Mogami class and the restrictions imposed by the London Naval.
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"Holy shit" doesn't quite describe this piece in McKristol's Quarterly Concern, wherein the author not only fails to spell Thomas Hobbes' name correctly even once, but also dishes out exactly.
I'll grant that the awfulness of today's comic sections was near the top of the list of the topics I liked to engage in dorm-dinner-table rants about (foreshadowing my inevitable entry into a blogosphere), so I'm a particularly ripe audience. Nonetheless, I think it's plain that...
One of the most frustrating aspects of being a Yankee-hater (or, in other words, a decent human being) is watching Mariano Rivera put up 200 ERA+s every single damned year..
Argh. Is there a bigger waste of 26 hours of TV than ESPN's coverage of the NFL Draft? I mean, Christ, what's wrong with people that they've managed to convince.