After the jump a few of the Vernesque machines from the workshops of Les Machines de l’île...
Month: May 2011
After few wars have the victors entirely resisted the urge to be as vengeful in peacemaking as...
“In general, I am agnostic on exactly how libertarian I want society to be. What I know...
Something light for Sunday. Pearl Jam hasn’t done much the last few years (gosh, ten years?) but...
I watched maybe half of the first GOP 2012 primary debate the other night on Fox. I...
A recent Washington Monthly profile of Dan Savage draws this interesting* parallel between modern sexual norms and...
You should be. But even if you’re not, this cover of the show’s theme song is sweet...
“[S]urely the most obvious point to make is that if we cannot keep illegal drugs out of prison...
Since it’s apparently “Torture Awareness Week” here at the League, yet another — I’m on the road,...
Tyler Cowen asks: What’s the best accessible pop album that never caught on with listeners and buyers?...
Conor Friedersdorf explains well how the argument that justifying torture under even limited circumstances would morally corrupt...
(NOTE: The odds of a commenter making the point I’m trying to make in this post in...
“In my opinion it is a grand book…. Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with...
“It’s a mistake to say this was about inflicting pain. These measures were about instilling a sense...
Emptywheel writes: [Some suggest] that the fact Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Faraj al-Libi provided tidbits (or,...
League alum Jamelle Bouie notes the not-so-surprising-upon-reflection lack of awareness of who Osama bin Laden was amongst...
The killing of Osama bin Laden is a real crossroads about which I am currently neither optimistic...
by Lester Freamon Some people think that the division of American political culture into Team Red vs....
by E.C. Gach Most fans of Superman will know that this past week, in Action Comics #900,...
I was going to keep my damn mouth shut today, because, well, my attitude toward the news...