I'm apparently a bit late to the conversation, but I'd like to submit my brief as a penny hater. Forget the economic arguments, which are compelling enough; the fact is that the American penny is one of the ugliest coins on the planet. Of course now...
A commenter chez Yglesias links to this 2003 interview with Paul Berman. I think this is my favorite part:Even people who think that Bush is making a blunder with his.
Me and Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard mix it up. A taste:
Glory be. Let's hope it's not just April Fools.
From the 2003 Berman article in The New Republic, discussed here and here:TODAY, WE ARE living through not just a military crisis but something of a political crisis within the.
In a post engaging in the time-honored pastime of Mickey Kaus-bashing, Kathy makes an important point with respect to Kaus's claim that increasing income inequality is the result of "increasing.
The Supreme Court's decision today in New Jersey v. Delaware was decided in favor of the latter. The two dissenters? Trenton's Antonin Scalia and Trenton's Sam Alito. (Well, Stevens dissented in part, but to argue that the rule announced by the Court was insufficiently protective of...
Mark Hendrickson, Opening Day starter.
I think this is mostly my fault, but I'll simply point out that we're rank amateurs compared to Thers and Molly, who hit 45%. As for the LGM Enemies List,.
The NY Times is a repeat competitor in the let's shove women into boxes olympics. This week's entry: the Magazine's article about people who remain abstinent into their teens...people at Harvard (gasp!). Melinda Henneberger* gets to the heart of my complaints on XX factor. In the...
Prisons are a feminist issue. Last week, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court that requires prisons to provide transportation for incarcerated women seeking abortions..
This looks to me like a clean victory for Sadr. In the words of the immortal Jim Malone, if you open the door on these people, you have to be.