In response to some of the comments to his post on politics and economics yesterday as I...
Year: 2010
A while back a colleague of mine alerted me to an interesting thought experiment/game derived by Eliezer S....
Outgoing Ohio Governor Ted Strickland was one of my favorite elected officials to lose office last month. ...
I come down closer to Jamelle Bouie’s side of the Hobbit argument than Adam Serwer’s. Jamelle argues...
Tomorrow, NASA will be holding a press conference that some analysts have determined will reveal new evidence...
I’ve been meaning to do a post on FLG’s liberal/conservative time horizons theory for awhile, but haven’t...
I’ve been struggling to formulate a decent post in the broad arena covered by Ned this morning...
Ezra Klein had a great rundown yesterday on a psychological phenomenon called motivated skepticism: On the simplest level,...
Is this still true? Was it ever true? There really is such a thing as freedom here...
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...
