~ by Elia Isquire Sally Kohn has a piece in Friday’s Washington Post that makes the argument...
Month: April 2011
In a previous post, I explained that one of the underlying sources of disagreement about basic economic...
I have any number of questions for Christopher Carr, our OG in Japan, about the last month or...
A piece of the (Classical) historical record of which I had never heard, here (with a h/t...
(Editor’s note: Erik’s praise for “Game of Thrones” drew me out of semi-retirement. Bear with me) One...
This time it’s for the Internet. I’m skeptical, for many of the same reasons I was skeptical...
I have television in my house once again – for a little while. This is because it...
Please allow me to introduce our fifth hosted blog, Blinded Trials by Russell Saunders. Russell will be...
In the Mindless Diversions blog, one of the regular features is the Saturday! feature in which I...
The weekend is upon us which means that it is the perfect time for an upbeat job-related...
I don’t normally take the time to point out that I find foreign policy statements at Commentary...
In how many different ways is Arizona’s “Birther” bill potentially or likely unconstitutional? At first glance, I...
Here’s a budget idea. No, it’s not perfectly aligned with my theoretical commitments. Is anything out there...
Because of the large number of comments to my last post, I hope it is acceptable that...
There are some areas of inquiry and discussion that are inherently difficult because you can’t say anything...
This first paragraph sounds reasonable, containing only minor distortions and untruths. In the second paragraph, the first...
Leitmotif: Any custom is better than no custom.—Nietzsche Goodreads: Yesterday an acquaintance asked me to link to...
The last time I checked, most Muslims in the United States were not blowing themselves up in...
Two weeks ago, the Orange County Federalist Society, of which I am honored to serve as vice-president,...
There’s something to be said for attempting to read Foote’s Civil War at the same time as...