I had never realized that Gary Sinise (whose work I very much respect) was a Republican.
Michael Berube sets Peter Singer straight.As an aside, how the heck did Berube slip onto Horowitz's list of dangerous professors, while the nefarious Singer slipped through the cracks? The latter.
Ezra is right; Entourage works best when things go well. I don't know that I agree that this season has been problematic, because of course success after hardship is so.
It's being reported that Notre Dame is going to bring back Charlie Weis for a fifth season, despite the fact the team racked up the most losses in any two-season stretch in the 109-year history of the program in Weis's third and fourth years.Weis's record is,...
I have a piece at Guardian: Comment is Free on the International Security Advisory Board report on China. Long story short, it's Team B revisited.
I agree with Henry and Tim. Bainbridge's critique of Doug Kmiec as Vatican Ambassador has nothing to do with Kmiec's actual policy views, but rather with the fact that Kmiec.
Is Amity Shlaes stupid, dishonest, lazy, or all of the above?As a somewhat-related bonus, this is also good:Paul Krugman Sets the Bar Far too Low......when he says that Keynes's greatness is illustrated by the fact that he understood things that George F. Will does not. A...
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Matt Duss and I diavlog away, touching upon such subjects as piracy, the Clash of Civilizations, turkey, the Sound of Music, and Matt's prospects for replacing Alan Colmes:
Despite their ideological dissimilarity, Stephen Harper seems to be emulating the parliamentary strategery of Joe Clark, which apparently will lead to Canada's left-leaning electoral majority retaking power. A couple notes:This was really an incredible blunder on Harper's part. Did he think that the opposition parties would...
Kim du Toit -- winner of the most prestigious blogging award ever -- has apparently tired of blogging. He muses:Somebody wrote to me and said, very graciously, that he now.
On to chapter IV of From Colony to Superpower…Herring clearly prefers the last of the Virginia Dynasty to the previous two. Much of the credit for Monroe’s foreign policy competence.