This month’s Cato Unbound features Glenn Greenwald on “The Digital Surveillance State.” He makes the case that...
Month: August 2010
In tonight’s groundbreaking, must-see episode, the Housewives Politicians cause a media firestorm when Danielle Staub Alaskan activist...
A while ago Will Wilkinson proposed scrapping birthright citizenship as part of a grand bargain with immigration...
We’ve reached the end of Empire of Illusion. Throughout the previous chapters, Chris Hedges has argued that...
A few weeks back, Rufus asked whether there had been a recent uptick in people protesting against...
Honestly, I’m so, so sick of hearing about the precious feelings of the opponents of same-sex marriage....
Phaedrus is a masterful dialogue that it’s impossible to do justice to. Here Plato is at the...
I’m a bit late to it, but this post on the history of the Great Mosque of...
Recently, I asked if there had been a recent uptick in people protesting Islam and the building...
Using mathematical models, it is easy to demonstrate that every human being alive today is likely to...
I highly recommend this BBC documentary about Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who solved Fermat’s last theorem. In...
This is the first one of these I’ve done, mostly because my musical tastes are not very...
…The fact that movement conservatives in good standing are advising the President of the United States to...
This bit of Sarah Palin worship in a dead-tree outlet (and also this one) leaves me speechless. Yeah,...
by Rick Ungar I like Joe Scarborough. In fact, I watch him most every morning. Not because...
This morning I was surprised to find Tim Kowal — one of my few followers on Twitter...
An Andrew Sullivan reader, writing in response to coverage of the most recent well-publicized case of puppycide...
The level of judicial scrutiny that gays and lesbians should get is both left undetermined in Perry...
No, really. Just because public safety officers and teachers are public employees whose job it is to...
Via John Cole – this is probably the most entertaining thing you’ll read today. In two posts...