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 Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025Also, what should have the Jews done? Stayed in Europe and get killed in the Holocaust? Should the M… on Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025Yeah, the only time Israel/Palestine might have been what you call a country from the Romans until 1… on Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025From what I recall from actual history is that Israel/Palestine was a province of various empires fr…
on Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025Wait, so the racist guy resigned because he saw something that made him say "I'd better get out of h…
on Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025This seems troublingly plausible.
on Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025He didn't get fired, he resigned. It doesn't seem like he was asked to resign. I think he just final… on Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025Do we have any money guys? The whole "Donor-Advised-Fund" thing seems shady but I am being assured t…
on Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025People are stranded in the middle of clinical trials including with devices implanted in them becaus… on Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025İyad el-Baghdadi has an interesting realpolitik thread on the whole Gaza thing. He's not really look… on Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025Oh good! I thought that if something like this would happen that there'd be some sort of fight over…
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