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 is unfortunate. The Guests are Samuel Freeman and Robert Talisse. The former is a Rawls student and squarely...
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.
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: John Kerry supporters in America have been told by Peter Hain that Downing Street is hoping...
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.
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 permanently, creating a lefty version of Volokh.) Anyway, Prof. Balkin has been poring over the recently-released...
LGM Readers, The site will be undergoing some minor visual changes over the next couple of days. If these give you browser problems, hurt your eyes, or in any other.
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.
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 the Wall Street Journal, which is part of the "good media" and means that the wingnuts'...
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.
Andy's back, and he's pissed. The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans. This is an almost seventeenth century piece of public sectarianism and anti-Catholic bigotry. But.