Ralph Fiennes asks, “Is Shakespeare relevant,” in an age of tweets and texts. In response to Fiennes-as-Luddite, E.D. Kain launches into a virulent defense of new technology and language’s continuing evolution. However, I think...
The Second Apocalypse is a projected nine-book series comprised of three separate-but-connected trilogies by R. Scott Bakker. The first of those trilogies is The Prince of Nothing, which opens with the first book in...
Last week we did a kind of census to see where we all came from, in terms of what led us to the League. Mike at The Big Stick asked that we go one...
Did anyone know that Gingrich and Cain were having a mano y mano debate last night? I had no idea. I can’t decide whether I think the idea of two candidates having a debate...
Daniel Mendelsohn offers commentary on the problems and practice of translation not unrelated to the discussion held here a few weeks back:
[bumped to the top and the front page for more visibility – Erik] Two recent stories got me thinking about a pet project/experiment that’s been percolating in my brain for a bit now: this...
Matt Yglesias has a smart post up on Frederic Bastiat’s “What is Seen and What is Not Seen” essay, noting that ” the correct way to understand it is as precisely laying down the theoretical...
I thought we needed an open thread. But I wanted it to be *FUNKY*. If you have something dope, this is where to drop it.
As a stand up comedian, Steve Martin had a bit in which he would muse about what a great prank it would be to raise a child and teach them to “talk wrong”, with...
In an exchange Tuesday up on the main page, wardsmith asked me if I thought voters had a right to privacy. I smelled a rhetorical trap coming because the answer seemed so obvious —...
~by Jeremie Finck (more commonly known as North) How do you start a guest post? Damned if I know. Whist commenting on the Greek/Euro drama and the relative skills of Prime Minister Papanderou, I...
Will Wilkinson makes an important observation about the affinity between libertarians and conservatives. At the heart of the fusionism between the two groups, he explains, is the notion of individual responsibility. Whereas libertarians and...
I hadn’t actually considered compiling data, but Pat’s magnificent work recently has kind of shamed me into doing so. Basically, everyone that answered either came from another blog that linked to us, followed a...
Robert Neuwirth in Foreign Policy, writing about “System D” — the unlicensed, unregulated, off-the-books world economy: System D is a slang phrase pirated from French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean. The French have a word...
I’m getting ready to throw the End-Of-Prohibition Party. So of course I’m thinking of old standards. Bear in mind that the original of this one was in 1928 in German, but didn’t make it...
Fellow Gentleman Tom Van Dyke recently wrote the following: For if I were an atheist member of Congress, I’d still follow GWash on the political and social utility of religion. No big deal. Religion,...
Greg asks, “How many people get here from Milf-o-rama.com?” (cheekily) Our referrers for the last week:
I thought we’d take Patrick’s post below and give it a much more straightforward twist. Feel free to explain your vote in the comments, but you have to vote! The poll will run for...
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on Read It For Yourself: How Trump Admin Defines “Gang Members” For DeportationThe Courts are less than one percent of the gov. The bulk answer to Trump. Trump fired everyone he c…
on Tariffs Making China Great AgainI'm going to petition the US government to fix my _huge_ trade deficit with the local Walmart by hav… on Read It For Yourself: How Trump Admin Defines “Gang Members” For DeportationAnd here we go with the constitutional crisis: A Federal judge Paula Xinis has ordered the Trump adm…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25From the article: Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in response to Xinis’ ruling that the judge… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The governments argument was that he was a dangerous criminal and gang member and not coming back un… on Read It For Yourself: How Trump Admin Defines “Gang Members” For DeportationWe do not have a lot of chaos in this. We have court system that functions, and we have whatever Tru…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25As I've said before, my working assumption is that the goal is the North American Empire under Donal… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Isn't this the case where the DOJ's argument is "Neither we nor the Salvadorans can find him"? With…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25There was no tariff plan you would have been okay with. Hell, I doubt there is much of anything Pres…
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