The Jukebox spins back to the late 60s this evening to highlight one of the most underrated...
Month: April 2010
Arizona may be my last straw. My home state has gone off the deep end lately (and...
Jay Richards at the AEI blog is doing a series of posts about Ed Phelps’ old First...
I’ve given Phillip Blond another chance at convincing me of his vision but alas I find his...
Conor Friedersdorf’s valiant attempt to convert Levin fans irresistibly recalls The Guardian’s 2004 letter writing campaign to...
As a counterpoint to Jonathan Raban’s negative review of Red Tory, here’s Philip Blond in The American...
Jonathan Raban gives a searing review of Phillip Blond’s Red Tory in the LRB. Ouch.
Steve Hynd provides a compelling case that, whatever one may think about the utility of drone strikes...
In Gorgias, Plato expands on many of the themes of the Republic while posing the implicit question:...
Br. Jamelle goes on the attack against radical centrism of the Thomas Friedman variety. He writes: The...
If I’m not mistaken, legislation in New York that would automatically enroll people as organ donors with...
Last weekend I was visiting some friends in a Major American City, and we were out back...
From the NYRBlog: In a country in which schools seem to teach less literature every year, where...
Responding to the post by Br. Chris, I think Matt Taibbi has a point. Tea Partiers and other small government...
For those of you losing sleep awaiting my take on Zizek’s commentary on Christian mysticism and politics,...
Good stuff from the blogosphere’s resident stats guru.
Matt Taibi writes: The Republicans, meanwhile, are in the difficult position of trying to sell Wall Street’s...
William summarizes Millman’s taxonomy (and doesn’t that roll off the tongue? You almost want to capitalize ‘taxonomy’:...
The annoying tendency of opposition parties to pick really dumb nits is exacerbated by the fact that...
MSNBC reports that Noah’s Ark may have been found on Turkey’s Mount Ararat. The finders, led by...