“Critchley leafs through the pages of his register and concludes, as did Montaigne, that the consolation of...
Month: May 2009
from Poem 64 by Catullus, translated by Horace Gregory (Some people don’t like Gregory’s translation because of...
…When a talk show host accuses someone who disagrees with them of hating their country or expresses...
At the risk of beating a dead horse, Jack Balkin pens a magnificent piece on how criticism...
A day late – I blame the holiday. This one is “Cathedral in Winter” by Ernst Ferdinand...
Noah Millman writes: But if we get a true dollar crisis, that calculus no longer obtains. If...
If only I had a few more years of marketing experience under my belt . . .
“Judge Sotomayor was raised in public housing? So was I. Her mother was a nurse working late...
Obama needs to release the photos, even if they do show pictures of the rape of detainees. ...
Using Geraldo Rivera as a barometer of Latino opinion is probably a bad idea, but there was...
1 a: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body b: a...
“If this evil monkey god wants to accompany me to the first committee meeting of the fall,...
How arrogant are the Lakers? Thanks for asking. So arrogant that they feel free to change the...
He says he’s in against Specter. Good for him. Pennsylvania is going deep blue. And the Penn...
After an unbearably over-hyped build-up, Barcelona’s 2-0 victory over Manchester United was pretty darn anti-climactic. Adding insult...
Matthew Schmitz wants counter-conservatives to stop attacking the right-wing talk radio pundits: If the goal of Conor...
“A series of cataclysmic events leads to the annihilation of a war-mongering elite. All that remains is...
Commenter Mike Farmer expresses an objection to my and Mr. Larison’s defenses of Judge Sotomayor’s “wise Latina...
Daniel Larison has put together some excellent thoughts on the current leading objections to Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination...
Jay Bennett passed away yesterday. He’ll be missed. Wilco hit a rough patch after he left the...
