Shorter Ross Douthat: “Executing the occasional innocent person is a price worth paying to stimulate a prison reform movement that shows no sign of happening despite the fact that we execute innocent people.” Take lessons, children: the idea that injustice A shouldn’t be addressed because of injustice B (which, in turn, of course must yield […]
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On the monetary side are even worse than ours. In a bit of black comedy, on the other side of the page, Ross Douthat argues that the Obama administration did not pivot quickly enough to austerity. Rea
Great column from Coates. After bringing much-needed national attention to Rick Perry’s role in the murder of Cameron Tood Willingham, the punchline says it all: Whatever one thinks of the death
Bobo engages in his trademark style of argument, focusing on abstractions and ignoring evidence about whether or not markets actually work for a given problem. Cohn does a good job pointing out the problems, and I think the most important one is near the end — the comparison with other countries. Brooks asserts that “there […]
Maybe he was a good restaurant critic — although there’s considerable debate on that point* — but on politics, Bruni was awful. It’s hard to know what the Times was thinking, e
Bobo’s fantasies about elites and bipartisanship notwithstanding, to the extent that the British system is “functional” where the American system isn’t, it’s because the
The so-over choice of wrap rather than bread sure is fascinating, but I can’t fully evaluate Obama’s foreign policy choices until I know what’s on his iPod. And I can’t believe that we didn’t get a more in-depth evaluation of the undoubtedly un-American condiment choices.
Seriously, in the wake of Iraq, we’re going to claim that unilateralism produces transparent decision-making, clear objectives, and considered decision-making? Right. This is so silly I’m
Without getting into the debate we’ve been having in comments about his merits as a columnist, I note that Frank Rich’s latest much-praised column makes no sense: THOSE desperate to deciph
Your new Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, ladies and gentlemen: Regarding the “Ground Zero Mosque,” Rubin told us 3,000 Americans were killed at the Burlington Coat Factory at West Broadway and Park Place, and that by supporting it the Left was “advertising its own intellectual crack-up and unfitness to govern.” When Mel Gibson was famously […]
Shorter David Brooks: The shrewd political course for Obama is to agree with David Brooks — and, hence, the American public, who I will attribute all my beliefs to — about everything.
Via Amanda Hess, self- (and by nobody else) described very funny guy Richard Cohen leaps to the defense of Clarence Thomas: Every 20 years or so, some woman surfaces to accuse the now-Supreme Court ju