Michael Berube has a damn fine idea. While everyone in Blue America is now regretting Civil War, Berube would have us look at the Louisiana Purchase. And while everyone’s been obsessing about the land of Dixie and its peculiar institutions, the good people living on this...
Everyone's linking to this new blog started by Velleman, whose work I don't personally know, but who I know is a big name in philosophy. But the rest of the roster.
immediately below. The natural path for this to take is for us to start parsing Atrios' argument narrowly until we discover we all pretty much agree, and I'm not sure.
As a follow-up to my comments below, this Matt Welch post bears extensive plag...er, quoting: Jeff Jarvis says "Michael Moore lost the election." Roger Simon adds that Kerry blew "an obvious opportunity to win the election - the perfect 'Sister Souljah' moment," i.e., denouncing Moore. Let's address...
I'm afraid I have to go with Matt and Kevin on this one. From Atrios: That's ridiculous. The issue with that war and any other war isn't simply whether it's "justifiable." And.
To follow up on Scott's post, Kieran Healy at Crooked Timber has done an excellent job of destroying the absurd first post from Judge "Posner." Speaking of which, “Posner’s” strategy neatly.
Max Sawicky celebrates the transcendent brilliance of the first post of the widely touted Becker/Posner blog, which is just as good as I expected. If there's one thing we need, it's more blogs by conservertarian law professors! (Although, admittedly, economists seem to be less well represented.) Hopefully...
Sideways: I don't have much to say that you haven't already heard. I'm not one to reflexively go with a critical consensus--hell, most critics think Richard Goddamn Linklater is a.
For some reason, Kenneth Waltz is getting a lot of attention today. Matt Yglesias writes: I was talking to an international relations grad student last week, and he told me that.
Must-read Howler today, as Somerby recounts a grim episode of C-SPAN's Booknotes, in which Faux bingo-caller Chris Wallace recounts his very favorite episode in Presidential courage. Which is, of course, Cleveland's unconstitutional use of troops to help company goons suppress the Pullman strike. Really warms the cockles...
Many of you may be confused about the arcane manner of commerce clause jurisprudence, as it appears that the advocates of "states' rights" on the Supreme Court will mysteriously abdondon this.
Roy Edroso notes that Roger L. Simon, author of the screenplay of arguably the most irritating movie I've ever seen in a theatre and now the blogosphere's most irritating Yoosta Bee, is.