Even if you have no interest in the upcoming US-UK England World Cup match, the quality of the trash talk between our respective embassies is to be savored.
This is a pretty stunning visual: Via Sullivan Law and order types will argue that this level of incarceration has coincided with a significant drop in crime rates, but whether that’s due to the...
Jeremy Scahill thinks the U.S. Government should end its contracts with BP: Contrast the Congressional response to ACORN’s federal contracts with its response to BP, which does billions of dollars in business with the...
The urbanist blogosphere, for those of you who don’t follow it, has been chattering about street grids of late, prompted by this fascinating comparison of the standard block size in various American cities. The...
First off: Welcome to Austin Bramwell and Lisa Kramer! The more the merrier around here. Okay, the Meno dialogue deals with some of the same themes as the later Phaedo dialogue, particularly the idea...
Lisa – I should clarify my thoughts on both merit pay and seniority. Regarding merit pay, I agree with you and a number of commenters here that it is very difficult to accurately measure...
Response to E.D.: I’ve felt for a while that the pendulum was starting to swing and that cracking the teachers unions would soon become an issue that lacked ideological definition (I compare it to...
John Cole posts this video (an expanded version of the one stirring up all this controversy) of Helen Thomas answering some questions about Israel and journalism: Well, it’s not exactly the most sensitive thing...
I thought some of the more future-oriented and techno-optimistic of the League’s readers would be interested in this argument: A durable and beautiful built environment provides the best physical and spatial context for human...
Von, of ObiWings, dissects a rather unsurprisingly propagandistic Rasmussen poll on immigration: Although 58 percent of voters want to abolish birthright citizenship for illegal aliens, "[s]ixty percent (60%) of voters favor a welcoming immigrant...
Provocative stuff from Robin Hanson: Social norms are slavery. Factory work is worse than farming is worse than foraging. “School, propaganda, mass media, and who knows what else have greatly changed human nature, enabling a...
Ezra Klein makes a good point about the ‘first-hired, last-fired’ rule governing most public school systems. In most unionized public-school systems, tenure and seniority are the primary considerations which are used to determine who...
I want to talk about school choice again, because it’s one of those topics that I have a really hard time coming to terms with, and it struck me over the weekend that this...
I’ve been invited to contribute here at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, even though, as you can tell from my name, I don’t quite fit the “gentleman” label. That aside, I’m proud to join...
From The Unlikely Fan, a great series on the history of the World Cup and an entertaining post comparing the history of each country’s national squad to professional American teams. For the highbrow set...
This seems like the sort of thing the conservatives around here would cheer for: While gay sex should not be criminalized, [Tushnet] said, gay men and lesbians should abstain. They might instead have passionate...
James Matthew Wilson takes a critical look at the anniversary of The Pill: [T]he only alternative to those technocratic solutions that, by definition, try to put decision outside the range of moral action and...
I’m not actually opposed to the idea of hiring more federal workers – especially if we are in the middle of a balance-sheet recession. Obviously the hiring that occurred for the Census has done...
I have three posts up already at the Washington Examiner’s Opinion Zone Blog. First, I tackle the New Jersey teachers’ unions and their resistance to any and all reforms in public education in that...
The Nation has a long article about the highly influential Templeton Foundation, which primarily funds research projects at the intersection of science and faith. It’s written by Nathan Schneider, one of my favorite writers...
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on Group Activity: Manic Monday Market Watchalongp.s. for Site admins... I'm getting an error with every post (thought post completes): Warning: Unde… on Group Activity: Manic Monday Market WatchalongAlso curious to see that Gold is dropping too -- although, it had already reached $3.2k from $2k ove… on Group Activity: Manic Monday Market WatchalongDouble clicking into this... I'm not sure what you're seeing reported is true? Seems Japan holds abo…
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on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Yeah, no. 1) They aren't cut out for the work, even if it's a union job. Swing shift? Right. Mandato…
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Eigen's got a good thread. He talks about a couple of the headlines at the WaPo: "Trump calls tariff…
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Or even thirty or forty somethings that never did hard physical labor in their life. on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I did not post this for it to be taken seriously.
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I mean even in math terms it's knee slappingly idiotic. on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I don't know, I have doubts. This is the whole legacy media system writ large. The distribution pipe…
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