Ta-Nehisi has pushed once again into the abortion and slavery debate, this time following the invocation of...
Year: 2011
A couple follow-up thoughts on DougJ’s response to my Little Republics post. First of all, I think...
By Burt Likko (aka Transplanted Lawyer) This post is about what exists in reality and how I’ve seen...
Like pretty much the whole internet-reading public, I haven’t been able to avoid New York Times music...
Anecdotal evidence about academia’s race to the bottom: a local university emailed our graduate department- they’re offering...
The first is from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes: And the best cover of that song...
Noted Creed apologist Joe Carter sends this story along with the following note:
“I’ve begun to suspect that our delusions tend strongly to return us to the same moment in...
‘Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,’ said the Rat. ‘And that’s something that doesn’t matter,...
I’m not certain where this line of thought is going quite yet — but it’s going somewhere....
Even if you’re not a sports fan, GQ’s profile of Deadspin editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio is worth reading...
The Wire’s David Simon forcefully responds to criticism of his show from Baltimore’s police commissioner. Read the...
Writing a post that doesn’t quite compute is one of the perils of blogging, so let me...
Here’s a good article from The Boston Globe on the drug trade and Portugal’s experiment in drug...
The analytical gymnastics Jennifer Rubin is forced to perform here to defend the invasion of Iraq are...
Interesting stuff from the one of the League’s favorite science fiction writers. Of particular note is his...
Matt Yglesias responds to Freddie’s post on the dearth of truly left-wing voices in the blogosphere, and...
Matthew Yglesias has already poked fun at this interview with the new head of DC’s Department of...
I want to comment on this month’s Atlantic Monthly piece by Chrystia Freeland, “The Rise of the...
It seems at times we can overstate the religious thinking of the Greeks and tip the balance...