Plato’s dialogue Ion is brief and seems to address a rather trifling question: Do poets know what they’re talking about? If Homer composed beautiful passages about chariot-driving, does his art include technical knowledge of...
I just don’t get the hostility to Trig Trutherism. Over on Volokh, Dave Kopel takes Human Events to task for publishing a column arguing that Obama is a Muslim. Kopel quite properly warns that...
Jamelle, covering Netroots Nation at The American Prospect’s blog, writes: The Netroots Nation straw poll, conducted during the conference by Revolution Messaging, shows President Obama with an approval rating of 84 percent among the...
Steven Taylor notes that Massachusetts has become the latest state to sign on to the National Popular Vote Initiative and proceeds to shred the usual claims that the Initiative is inconsistent with the spirit...
I was remiss in my last music post. Several readers pointed out that The National’s Bloodbuzz Ohio is an excellent tune and should have been included. Well here it is: Some great lyrics in...
(UPDATED) I’d strongly advise against this course of action. It is certainly true that what Breitbart did was wrong and blatantly misleading. To the average person lacking a preexisting loyalty to Breitbart, the defenses...
The Old Ones have spoken . . . or rather, this incredibly unreliable website has determined I’m a bad Lovecraft knock-off. Sound off in comments with your own results (via).
We haven’t done one of these for awhile. Today seems like as good a day as any. It’s sometimes easy to forget that a lot of times the most detail-oriented, sober, and incisive pieces of...
Lately, I’ve read a number of news stories about this sort of thing. Out of curiosity, has there, in fact, been a recent uptick? If so, does anyone know why?
Although I think he makes a number of highly questionable logical leaps (and certainly overstates his case) in his attempt to tie the failure of the Allies to support the WWII German resistance to “Egalitarian...
Mark’s points about the relationship between American dynamism and immigration are well-taken. Again, I’d like to stress that I’m endorsing an exceedingly mild form restrictionism – perhaps a system that expands immigration quotas for...
Why wait for Friday night to do a music post? I say let the jukebox play whenever you put another dime in it, baby. Anyways, I’ve been almost obsessively listening to The National lately....
I respect the point that Will made last week in his post arguing against open borders and for a sort of mild restrictionism. Will sums his argument up thusly: So the West is both...
So, let me get this straight… Activist accuses ideological opponents of racism on basis of highly misleading video clip taken completely out of context. NOT RACE-BAITING. Target of racism accusation based on highly misleading...
At this point in the book, it’s becoming more evident to me that Chris Hedges is a cultural conservative of a fairly traditionalist bent. Some readers might overlook this because he’s a progressive, but...
It’s striking that in recent years America has become familiar with a major theme in Euripides: namely, the war that starts after victory is declared. I proposed this as the climate in which Hecuba...
Serves me right… go on vacation, miss a bunch of fun realignment posts. Anyway, I’m still sorting though and catching up, but I do hope to have some more complete thoughts on the subject...
Just to add some more items to Jason’s list of “managed ignorance” in the realm of conservative media: The “Mosque at Ground Zero,” which is neither at Ground Zero nor even really a “mosque,”...
I got nuthin’ right now – any suggestions on something you’d all like me to write about?
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Yeah good point, basically a very mild version of the delusions John Warnock Hinckley Jr. entertaine… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Just that. From the article at the end of the first paragraph where he shifted to talking about the… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Err, no, this is Chait- he has no confusion at all about why the right does the various things it do…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25David: Except they just hallucinated the ‘he’s living in my house and spending every waking hour wit… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I've seen youtube videos on the behavior of men/women on these dating apps. He's an extremely high s…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Or that. on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I'm sure that he is confused as to why support for his obviously correct article is so one-sided. on Don’t Go Torching Cyber TrucksIf Republicans want to blow up Bud Light, Democrats get to blow up Tesla. Elon should know that Free… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25As usual he's right.
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