Eric Muller calls an exchange between Michael Stokes Paulsen and Jed Rubenfeld about the latter's new book in the Yale Law Journal "head-turningly nasty," and Ann Bartow agrees. While I think that would be an accurate description of, say, John Simon on Gore Vidal, I'm not...
Shorter Bullshit Moose: "A few random comments on a website somewhere prove that 'Democratic leaders continue to collude with the anti-Semitic appeasing left.' But what really demonstrates anti-Semitism is opposing.
In this thread, a commenter noted something I've written about before, one of the most disturbing aspects of the deliberations surrounding Bush v. Gore: Ginsburg's retreat on a footnote criticizing.
I admit it: part of me wanted to mount a modest defense of Foer for giving a blog to Lee Siegel, if only on the grounds that nobody could have expected it to be as bad as it was. And Siegel had in the past shown...
One of my favorite scenes...Happy Labor Day!
I'm happy that John posted the full context of Rick Santorum's reprehensible attempt to drag Bob Casey's dead father into their Press the Meat debate today:SANTORUM: He says the science.
Mark Steyn:Do you want to hear what a person sounds like when they really are -- to use Steyn's words -- "weak, that there's nothing -- no core, no bedrock -- nothing it's not willing to trade"? Here is Bush loyalist Sen. John Cornyn, explaining why...
An important point by Yglesias that's not made often enough:Rumsfeld has been a poor Secretary of Defense. Overwhelmingly, however, this poorness has tended to manifest itself in Rumsfeld advocating horribly.
At lunch at the aforementioned Kingdom of Vegetarians yesterday, the conversation turned to the question of when a child's wish to convert to vegetarianism for ethical reasons should be indulged.
A Philly restaurant recommendation: Kingdom of Vegetarians. Cheap, delicious vegan-kosher Chinese food. The $10 a head dim sum lunch was the most expensive thing on the menu but it's worth it. Whatever you do, don't leave without trying the turnip cakes.(based on my two visits, the...
The Queen Elizabeth class represented a leap forward in battleship design almost equivalent in degree to that of Dreadnought. Following the construction of Iron Duke, the Admiralty decided to pursue.
Good Christ. What's next? No doubling down after 10pm on Tuesdays? I'm sure Iran is behind this, somehow...