Peter Orszag’s new job at Citigroup is one of those under-discussed stories that makes me glad I...
Year: 2010
Adam Serwer searches for the slimmest of silver linings in the government’s effort to charge Julian Assange...
The Serbian artist Marina Abramovi?’s performances suggest, to me, that performance art really isn’t a radical departure from plastic arts, but...
We haven’t done one of these in awhile. Patrick at Popehat takes a look at the latest...
[F]or about thirty years I have been showing my respect for the established orthodoxy by skipping breakfast....
Start here, because it’s the most personally damning. Saith Eliezer Yudkowsky: The first virtue is curiosity. A...
I think one of the driving tensions in my own internal political ecology arises between the components...
Each time I cross-post something I have written here to another blog and viewthe receptions that an...
Imagine that “China’s defense minister announces plans to
My brother recently gave me an early Christmas present by pointing out one of those ridiculous government...
There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education. — Will Rogers . Constant...
Currently appearing at the Acte2galerie in Paris, Cédric Delsaux’s “Dark Lens” series (manipulated photos of Dubai) is a...
Ongoing events, coupled with some discussions I’ve been having in the context of those events, have prompted...
Good for Michael Moore – a man I rarely see eye-to-eye with – for posting Julian Assange’s...
In my last post I noted, if one wants to justify (the normally prohibited kinds of) incest...
In the Eugene Volokh post the other day which Jason so strongly criticized, Volokh approvingly quoted the...
I’ve gotten a lot of grief for my calling Eugene Volokh a significant opponent of same-sex marriage...
Analogies can be tricky things. That’s something that Dr. John Corvino has noted. Over at the Volokh...
FIFA’s decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar over the UK,...
Recently, E.C. Gach made a very interesting argument here about the closed belief systems that support empires;...
