By way of Jonathan Adler, I came across this Gray Lady editorial concerning California’s renewable-energy mandate. Renewable energy means, for the most part, solar and wind power. The primary concern raised by the author...
While Confederate women and civilians pressured their sons, husbands, brothers, and fellow-citizens into fighting, those men, like one lieutenant wrote, “asked himself the question: What is this all about? Why is it that 200,000...
So I’ve decided to start my own sub-blog here at The League. I explain my reasoning in my “intro” post. If any bloggers are interested in being hosted at the League (or if you...
Responding to a recent paper examining public opinion on healthcare reform, John Sides writes: This article comports with an intuition I’ve had about the Affordable Care Act. I’ve heard commentators opine on whether people’s...
Hayek wrote, of the economy, Fundamentally, in a system in which the knowledge of the relevant facts is dispersed among many people, prices can act to coordinate the separate actions of different people in...
~by Shawn Gude The shift in E.D. Kain’s thinking on education reform of late has been an interesting and, I think, beneficent one for reform discourse. Kain basically blanched when he began to perceive...
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I want to talk about the Starks’ intelligence for a second now. Since the television series started I’ve seen a lot of online commentary saying that the Starks are pretty dumb. Obliviously stupid might...
In other news, the Obama administration seems to have pressured the Haitian government at the behest of contractors for American companies Levi Strauss and Haines to abandon a law they’d passed in 2009 to raise their minimum wage law...
1) One reason we keep talking about Anthony Weiner is because so many people keep complaining that we’re talking about Anthony Weiner. 2) The argument that people are “puritan” or “prudish” because we think...
In my introductory post I stated that one of the things I thought I could bring to The League was an outsider’s perspective to American debates. Since the relative merits of parliamentary democracy vs....
I am trying to gauge whether there would be sufficient interest for an online League game of Diplomacy at playdiplomacy.com. If at least six people respond to this post and express interest, then I’ll...
Sports have never been a focal point for the League, so I’ll put this one below the fold . . .
INTERVIEWER Had you been alive during the Civil War, would you have fought for the Confederates? FOOTE No doubt about it. What’s more, I would fight for the Confederacy today if the circumstances were...
Some of the reaction to the Weiner scandal is vaguely reminiscent of the reaction in France to the DSK scandal, though far less overtly disturbing. While the French had a “how dare they?” reaction...
~ by Christopher Carr Jackson Lears has a riveting piece up at the Nation which soundly routs the new parapositivism taking the popular and newspaper science cultures by storm. The piece is called “Same Old New...
“Having thought about this some more, I think that the best thing that we, as a society, can do in response is to send pictures of our junk to our congresspeople.” ~ Jaybird, on...
It’s a good thing Andrew Breitbart showed up before Anthony Weiner to the New York Democrat’s press conference to warn the British with bells and, uh, ringing of the bells that Weiner was coming...
Jailing is big business. California spends approximately $9 billion a year on its correctional system, and hosts one in seven of the nation’s prisoners. It has the largest prison population of any state. The...
While I don’t consider the legal debate over abortion rights to be particularly interesting — though it will infringe on women’s rights and freedom, outlawing abortions won’t make them go away — I had...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I did not know there was a beef with Gadot. Where did it come from? I have seen people being passive… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Me either. To be fair to him, Saul mentioned Snow White, but man, talk about an obsession.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Right? Racistly? (Though I'm not quite sure what racism has directly to do with a country actively w…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25We'll watch "Trumpism requires Trump to work" evolve into "Trumpism doesn't work at all, not even wi… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Because Gal Gadot was insufficiently supportive of Zegler in the days that followed the disastrous r… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I suspect just about everyone is, when doing political speech in a public forum, is "signaling" to s… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25This reminds me of something I've been wondering: What comes after Trump? After Trump's first term,… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Okay, good. My question was whether you were familiar with the phenomenon. I mean, I know you are. Y…
on Weekend Plans Post: Pantherine VandalsWhat cat isn't? on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25The closest I can find is here: Well, lemme tell ya, the whole “cutting remark hiding behind superfi…
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