Robert Stacy McCain reveals both an inherent lack of understanding regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict, and an unhealthy degree of bloody, American-made machismo. Really McCain, you think totally subduing the Palestinian people and then “rinsing”...
Helen breaks all this talk of shame culture into a list, which I reproduce for you below. (How very appropriate for a blog. That all blog posts aren’t top ten lists still amazes me…)...
Damon Linker is beating the same drum he’s been beating for some time now, warning against a perceived theocon menace that threatens to overthrow everything Americans have worked toward in fashioning a modern, liberal...
Amongst several others, Ross Douthat has some really good thoughts on my arguments for a more liberal libertarianism. So good are a lot of these responses that I could probably spend the next month discussing them (don’t worry, I won’t). But Ross’ points are probably the most comprehensive.
The loss of our self-understanding as parts of a whole meant that individuals who achieved material success were able to consider their achievement as fully their own. By contrast, those who happened to be...
Barry Ritholtz has posted a nice collection of links from different sources arguing for or against bank nationalization. To reiterate my previous post, I’m more concerned about how something like this gets executed and...
In the comments to my earlier post on The Commons Br. Kain wrote: I would like you to expand not merely on this concept, but on how you see it implemented. Now Br. Dave’s...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/417e58aa2d61f2e01a40847ad106f08f4d61361cf51ae8658e6ca910ea1dcbb… on Tariffs Making China Great AgainOh wait, that's for the February tariffs -- probably too early for the most recent ones, right? Stan…
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