I must argue that my colleague, as well as the increasingly shrill Andrew Sullivan, have reached the right conclusion about the proposed constitutional amendments in the GOP platform for the wrong reasons. It seems to me that a true Burkean--one who advocates caution, skepticism and moderation in...
Via Brian Leiter, I see that some PBS show I've never heard of is showing an episode devoted to John Rawls. Leiter tells me that the host is a right-wing hack, which.
Redbeard's got himself a damn fine post this morning: Have you not heard of that comedian who spliced together news footage and cried "Whither is truth?" As many media figures.
For those who have never read it, the Toledo Blade series on "Tiger Force" describes the activities of a U.S. Army unit in Vietnam in 1967. The unit perpetrated several atrocities against Vietnamese civilians. A few years later, the Army made a lame effort to investigate...
At least of the major political parties in the United Kingdom. Apparently, 10 Downing is quietly cheering for a Kerry victory. Much of the rest of the party is not-so-quietly cheering:.
Irrational Robot points out that the Republican platform is calling for four constitutional amendments. These include a) an amendment in support of "human life" which presumably would ban abortion, b).
Alan Krueger and David Laitin have an article in the latest Foreign Affairs discussing the State Department's infamous terrorism report for 2003. As you may recall, the report was unveiled with great fanfare, and purported to show that terrorist incidents were at a thirty-five year low,...
Hopefully you've been reading Balkanization, which has added commentary from two of the best constitutional scholars currently writing--Mark Graber and Mark Tushnet--to already excellent blog. (I wish they would come on.
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If there is one thing I've gotten sick of in the last four years, it's having to pick my jaw up off the floor every so often, after it fall there in response to my lack of ability to prepare myself for the level of incompetence...
The boys on the right have to stop every other day and gush about Arthur Chrenkoff. Chrenkoff, you see, tells the good news about Iraq. Moreover, he tells it in.
Still glad that Andy's back: Paris never wanted to be involved, but the notion that even a chief appeaser of Islamist terror can escape its fury is getting less and.