. . . and I’d be interested to get some feedback from our commentariat. I’m looking for...
Month: August 2009
The status update of The Vancouver Public Library’s copy of Jacques Derrida’s On Grammatology reads: Trace. Beyond...
Reflecting on Kevin Drum’s seventh ‘blogiversary’, David Adesnik has some thoughts on his own humble Internet beginnings...
Freddie posted a quotation from Gregg Easterbrook (whose writing I often find refreshingly counter-intuitive) about the success...
As I understand it, nobody suggests that torture is an ideal policy option. Most people who defend...
Of the four or five thinkers who have had the greatest impact on my thinking, I would...
If you missed a post today in all the madness, take the leap…
I was able to persuade Steven Harris of Mary Washington College – one of my favorite undergraduate...
I stayed at a quaint bed and breakfast this weekend in a charming old mining town on...
Via Pandagon: Democrats are choosing to “go it alone” without the country if they opt to pass...
I’m happy to say that a favorite of mine, Rortybomb– aka Mike Konczal (whose real name I...
I think this post is mostly just a bit of being a punk, and as you know,...
Br. Will links to an interesting review of Christopher Caldwell’s new book Reflections on the Revolution in...
Charlie Cook, of Cook Political Report fame, is very good at what he does, and when he...
So– Conor Clarke has written to me to suggest that I have misrepresented him here. (And misspelled...
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has a good piece up that explores some of the same ground I explored in...
The Wind by James Stephens The wind stood up, and gave a shout; He whistled on his...
Without lapsing into Steynian hysteria, I think there are real concerns about the growing population of alienated,...
You should really read Bob Wright’s rebuttal to Jerry Coyne’s pathetic attempt at a criticism of Bob’s...