Beyond the Stimulus?
David Leonhardt writing in the NyTimes: But while Washington has been preoccupied with stimulus and bailouts, another, equally important issue has received far less attention — and the resolution of it is far more...
Daily Archive: January 28, 2009
Painting in broad strikes
Helen Rittlemeyer thinks I’m talking trash about her kind of conservatism. In a previous post, I wrote: Often cultural conservatives are also religious, and consider religion to be an integral part of their civilization,...
Finding Humility for the Sake of Positive Partisanship
by Kyle Moore (Note: this post is MOSTLY ripped straight from my comments to one of Scott’s earlier posts) I wanted to make I suppose an emphasis to this great post. Early on you...
Talking About the Same Thing
Professor Joseph Wagner of Colgate University, one of the three professors who most influenced the development of my early political thought, was fond of saying that the venom associated with certain issues was because...
Schools, segregation, and gay rights
Freddie asks: Hey, why would someone like me be more invested in building a legal defense of gay marriage specifically and a larger lattice of rights to defend gay people generally? Why, maybe because...
Of Maus and Men
Last night, which happened to be International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I attended a lecture by Pulitzer prize winning comic book artist (or graphic novelist) Art Spiegelman. It was supposed to be a talk on...
pragmatics first
Hey, why would someone like me be more invested in building a legal defense of gay marriage specifically and a larger lattice of rights to defend gay people generally? Why, maybe because of things...
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