Miranda, Seen and Unseen
Commenter Scott writes: I re-read my Constitution and I still can’t find the part where it says that the cops have to tell you your rights. He’s right, of course. It isn’t in there....
Monthly Archive: September 2010
Christine O’Donnell on “The Women of Middle Earth”
Via Politico, here’s O’Donnell’s old Catholic Exchange article on Tolkien and gender.
How to Learn
This article on study skills research was fascinating to me. It corresponds well with my own experience, particularly this: [M]any study skills courses insist that students find a specific place, a study room or...
Miranda’s Failure
A staggering new piece of research shows that in almost 20% of criminal trial convictions that DNA evidence has subsequently overturned, the prosecution was able to rely on ultimately false confessions by the accused.* ...
Preschool bleg
So we’re looking at preschool for our daughter – and realizing that it may be too late to enroll her in a number of programs – but I am having trouble deciding on exactly...
‘A post-ideological index of good governance’
This post on good-governance countries by Scott Sumner is fascinating (via Reihan Salam). People on the left and the right may disagree with many of the particulars, but I think the overall thrust of...
Immigration and the economy
This data from the Pew Research Center illustrates just how connected the influx of illegal immigration into the United States is tied to the soundness of the American and global economy: The annual inflow...
Saul Alinsky, conservative?
There’s a lot of good stuff in Jesse Walker’s review of Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky, but here’s my favorite bit: In the early ’60s, the book reveals, Barry Goldwater contacted Alinsky and...
Immigration & the War on Drugs
Several commenters thought I was displaying too much certainty in my immigration post yesterday. Let me first say, I think this is a reasonable reaction to that post, which didn’t go into much detail...
Baffling
I’d been repeatedly urged to read Dinesh D’Souza’s Forbes article about President Obama’s ideology. “It’s really weird,” I was told. I had put it off, convinced it couldn’t be all that. Well, it was....
Forget viability. What about competence?
A quick question about the O’Donnell win in Delaware: At what point does a candidate’s personal problems or demonstrable lack of competence become a reason not to vote for them? O’Donnell really does seem...
Geoffrey of Villehardouin: “On the Conquest of Constantinople”
The conversation about the Crusades piqued my curiosity, so I read “The Conquest of Constantinople” by Geoffrey of Villehardouin, knight and historian of the Fourth Crusade. I’m certainly no expert on the subject, although...
Increased border enforcement leads to more migrant deaths
Adam Serwer posts this rather grim chart: He writes: "Skeletal remains" refers to those bodies so decomposed that cause of death couldn’t be determined. Perversely, increased border enforcement seems to have the effect of...
The Economics of Enlightenment
I have a short piece [here is the pdf download link] in the current issue of Econ Journal Watch, commenting on the recent ‘economic enlightenment’ survey Daniel Klein and Zeljka Buturovic published there a...
War blogging
So, after a good deal of pushback and a good deal of thoughtful commentary on my war posts, I think I’ll have to take a step back from my plunder/defense/folly theory of war. I...
Five Books on American Conservatism
Looking for a Fall reading list? You could do worse than a few of the titles from the Five Books symposium on conservatism.
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