Over at the Washington Examiner, I have a three–part–series on the new culture wars. In Part One...
Month: September 2010
Noah Millman attempts to define intellectual honesty: “Intellectually honest” means you make arguments you think are true,...
One interesting footnote from our recent debate over war and material self-interest is the question of the...
It’s official – every male who’s ever tossed a football is guilty of sexual harrasment: It was...
Hey there Christian conservatives! Are you sad because courts are scrapping second-class citizenship for gays and lesbians?...
Question: Was Albert Einstein really the first person to say, “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”?...
I’ve been watching this debate about different kinds of wars (Erik, Erik, Will, Erik, Erik, Will) get...
Via commenter Gilbert, who manages to tweak two League contributors in one fell swoop: The materialist theory...
Tyler Cowen has an excellent response up to this bit from Bryan Caplan on education. Here’s Bryan:...
Note: I hope I’m not boring everyone with these digressions into the history of the Crusades, but...
Look, I don’t think all wars or even all the players involved in brewing up our wars...
My answer to this. I’m surprised that no one got there first.
[updated] So the pushback against my war posts is interesting and has me thinking. I suppose that...
I’d highly recommend Walter Russell Meade on Melville’s Benito Cereno, a novella I remember slogging through in...
Striking, hilarious results from OkCupid (an online dating site) reveal what different ethnic groups are really into.
In an uncharacteristically silly post, Erik asserts that all wars are either defensive or driven by “plunder.”...
A few things to follow up on my last post with, briefly. First, I agree with the...
IOZ devotes a bit of time to snarking at that Karl Smith post everyone’s been linking to...
The ursine and passionate Andrew Sullivan emerges from his recent hibernation today with a must-read post about...
Psychology Today takes on the sad science of hipsterism.
