Month: November 2010
Newsweek has an interesting article showing Sam Harris to be more religious than you’d expect. I remember,...
[updated – I, II] Andrew Sullivan has an odd post up about the debt and Obama. First,...
Last night I was researching early dystopian fiction for some reason when I came across a reference...
“If secrecy is necessary for national security and effective diplomacy, it is also inevitable that the prerogative...
Okay. So everyone is right and everyone is talking past one another. I responded to James Fallows...
League alumnus Freddie deBoer is hosting a book club on Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose:...
We sell to China a lot more than they buy from us (the US for our foreign...
If you push long enough in the direction of a person’s ultimate beliefs, sooner or later you...
Katrina vanden Heuvel offers a non-apology apology to John Tyner for allowing her magazine to smear him. ...
Commenter Geoff Arnolds points us to this James Fallows piece. Fallows takes issue with the Douthat column...
“It’s important to remember, though, that we’ve empowered the government to do this. We’ve decided, collectively, that...
I must take issue with Erik’s recent post on airport security in which he argued for abolishing...
More often than not, Andy McCarthy and I simply don’t see eye to eye. For instance, his...
Glenn Greenwald has a piece up regarding the latest instance of the FBI’s bizarre and unconscionable practice...
NOFORN UPDATE LOL I’m going though the raw cables now and will put interesting things up here...
In my vigorous debate with Michael Heath (both here and elsewhere) about the value and legitimacy of...
I’m not interested in contesting the constitutionality of the new TSA protocols. In part this is because...
Of course the answer depends on what the meaning of the term “Christian” is. Here is my...
