I, for one, welcome Pluto's expulsion from the family of planets. Why don't I think Pluto should be a planet? Because it's obviously not a planet; it's very small, way out there, a lot like a bunch of other non-planet objects, and has a weird orbit....
To given an indication of how much worse things could get, a veritable Federalist Society All-Star panel of judges on the D.C. Circuit (Douglas Ginsburg--who, if I he [much as.
Shorter Jack Shafer: I have yet to be convinced that an article exclusively about why men shouldn't marry women with incomes over $30K isn't gender neutral. The fact that the.
Via Ezra, Lee Siegel denounces James Kinkaid for daring to wonder why so many people find the Jon Benet Ramsey story so fascinating. Siegel writesLike a lot of academics who had their heyday in the theory-ridden eighties, Kincaid thinks that the more media attention something gets,...
The FDA does, at long last, the right thing. I'm not going to give much administration much credit for finally getting beyond letting the likes of David Hager interpose his.
Ira Katznelson's recent book is a tour de force, a lucid account of an important historical phenomenon which incorporates the insights of historical institutionalist analysis without bogging down in jargon..
Frequent contributor gmack sent me a link to this bit of self-parody, which is apparently part of a "make Steve Forbes' economic theories look rational by comparison" campaign. Fortunately for me, its idiocy has already been thoroughly demonstrated by various sources. (Even Dr. Helen is willing...
Oh, sure, George W. Bush may have singlehandedly thwarted the terrifying numerologically determined impending attack from Iran by personally throwing the Bill of Rights and the United States Code into.
Did I miss something, or has Jacob Weisberg curiously disappeared since his anti-Lamont tirade two weeks ago? Usually he posts to Slate pretty regularly, but I haven't seen anything lately..
Apparently, this Bernard Lewis article about the horror Iran was going to unleash on 8/22--whose only distinction to rational people was managing to look foolish even by the standards of the Wall Street Journal's op-ed pages--was deemed to be worthy of major coverage at Trainwreck Media,...
Erik's recent work on the lumber industry in Oregon and Washington serves to remind us that deindustrialization isn't a phenomenon limited the the Rust Belt. Also check out Tuesday Forgotten.
In between seriously problematic paragraphs, Edward Luttwak makes (or, perhaps I should say shows the way to) a couple of interesting points. Luttwak wishes to draw into the question the.