Stop Prison Rape
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Eli Lehrer tackles prison rape here. I’d also recommend Ezra Klein’s excellent op-ed from several months ago.
Monthly Archive: June 2009
Maher Follow-up
Since I was pretty hard on Bill Maher last week for criticizing Obama without criticizing the Democrats (and Congress more generally), it’s only the (ordinary) gentlemenly thing to do to post this video of...
breaking news: people often feel racial panic
This story is making the rounds. I think it has a lot of troubling race-baiting going on in it. Check it out. Now, setting aside the fact that there is almost nothing more annoying...
holbo v douthat
John Holbo takes on Ross Douthat’s review of Digital Barbarism: Douthat is laboring to give readers the impression that Helprin is in any sense holding the non-monkey higher ground, a proposition subject to grave...
Symmetrical Idiocy
I was going to take Michael Goldfarb to task for suggesting that Iran policy ought to be dictated by some anonymous student demonstrator, but then The Guardian published an entire op-ed inspired by little...
a quote for a sunny summer day
“Do you think it’s an accident that when the neocons were in charge Hezbollah led the Lebanese elections but when we ditched the neocons, the Lebanese ditched Hezbollah? Do you think it’s an accident...
personae non gratae
Shorter me: Above all else, movement conservatives want to retain custody of what it means to be a conservative. They claim to hold the keys to the city, and they guard them jealously –...
freedom and neoconservatism
“Iran’s green awakening may end awfully. But if it succeeds, it will be everything the neocons had hoped to achieve in Iraq – and also a demonstration of neoconservatism’s core fallacy, which is that...
Poverty and Human Rights
Will Wilkinson has a fascinating post on whether some basic level of material well-being should be considered a human right. My gut response is that while we have some moral obligation to alleviate poverty,...
to say something or not to
…the stones Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at...
Sunday Poem Series
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying...
whatever you can come up with
James Poulos is indicting: Thought: above all, solidarity with the Iranian opposition has been *inspired* (not justified) by their *fashion*. Thought: we secretly feel it more possible to be a fundamentalist Muslim and cool...
retro geekdom
This is what I used to do all my writing on. And I do miss it. Part of me just misses the fact that back in the day I didn’t have the internet to...
Creativity, Thy Name Is Not Landon
From Ives Galarcep on the US Men’s National Team’s embarassing performance this week: The lack of production from Dempsey, total loss of form of Beasley and absence of injured striker Brian Ching have left...
