Longtime online friend Jim Peron launched a new project over the weekend — a blog for the...
Month: November 2010
Image via Wikipedia Playing off of Mark’s post against the Oklahoma ban on sharia law, it’s important...
So there’s been lots of good feedback from commenters and writers on the new formatting. Basically what...
In one of the recent threads on the supposed “threat” of sharia law and the resulting need...
Yet another example of our ludicrous economic policies mixing it up with our ludicrous law enforcement policies:...
Tim Burke’s recent meditation on the future of blogs has got me thinking about the evolution of...
I remember a bookstore cashier once flirting with me over my purchase of Catullus, whose poems she considered...
Joe Carter has now responded to my own opening argument, and I reproduce that response below. As...
In an attempt to widen the comments section, modernize the site’s functionality, etc I am experimenting with...
Before this debate began I introduced a quotation from the Emperor Theodosius I, who reigned at the...
Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist. His most recent book, A Secular Age, is...
Chris — no philosophical slouch he — writes: It’s interesting that Joe brings out the “no true...
Apologies for the delay; I’ve been obligated to work on some other projects over the past few...
I just finished the second book of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy – Catching Fire. Both books...
This really speaks to how I view politics: In one of the most shameless displays of political...
Via Andrew, here’s TPM’s Josh Marshall: I just don’t know if I think marijuana should be legalized...
“It occurs to me that there’s an obvious link here with the idea that the contemporary populist...
What a coincidence! Today, Mr. Brown and Mr. Carter debate the role of religious belief, or disbelief,...
Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi will no longer be represented in Congress by William Faulkner.
I’m told that the original expression is “critique élogieuse”: People say we can no longer write about...
