Mark Lynch of Abu Aardvark has just rolled out a new Middle Eastern "blog-journal," Qahwa Sada (which evidently means "black coffee"). Lynch explains the premise:Why a new blog-journal by Middle East experts? Because Middle East studies specialists have a phenomenal amount of quality knowledge about the...
In response to this post, one Seth Edenbaum--who seems to think that his silly point is such an astounding insight that he cut and pasted it to another post (with.
I won't waste your time mocking this Marty Peretz post, which is an act of considerable constraint. He statements about the quality and reputation of Catholic Universities as a whole.
Admittedly, when it comes to illogic on the part of supporters of criminalized abortion, the rape and incest exemptions are relatively small potatoes. What really gives away the show is their unwillingness to apply criminal sanctions against women who are allegedly committing something akin to murder....
In addition to throwing a competent knuckleball and embarking on a genuine, wake-up-in-a-ditch bender, it's been a lifelong ambition of mine to write an article on foreign affairs for The.
A brief public service announcement here to any new or soon-to-be new parents in the greater LG&M area: I cannot recommend strongly enough against giving your sick, six-month-old child a.
As Scott predicted and Dave shows, the updated Lancet study is going to make for some good hack-watching. Over at the Corner, Pod the younger announces he's about to make an ass of himself, and then does so:I am not a demographer nor a statistician nor...
Longtime readers surely know that none of us here find principled pacifism to be a useful philosophy or guide to foreign policy. I must admit I've never really felt like.
To people who saw this and know I work on the Upper East Side, 1)I'm fine, and 2)although I can see the helicopters out the window I have no particular.
Shorter Confederate Wankee: Occam's Razor clearly tells us that the simplest explanation for this study is that a team of researchers devoted years toward earning respected positions in their fields; developing reliable and widely-used statistical methods; composing a study that applies those methods to a current...
Since everyone appears to be thinking about nukes this week, I thought I might pass along part of an e-mail sent to me today by a former student who is.
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