Philip Kitcher expresses a frustration I’ve also had with Derek Parfit: Consider the case that Parfit refers...
Month: January 2012
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive My interview with...
Andrew Sullivan has written a long piece for the magazine version of Newsweek responding to the prevailing...
This photo shows the starboard hull backbone, lined up on a zero mark (the blue tape), and...
In the comments of my most recent post on abortion, Stillwater says that few people have non-contradictory...
I have a long-ish post up at Forbes that the comic-book lovers among you, and those of you...
It’s a sign that I am in a godawful weird place that this headline made me laugh...
Joey Jo Jo says in two comments: In my opinion, some stereotypes are cheered here (including heroic...
If you were hoping for Ron Paul’s swift exit from the spotlight, you’re out of luck. With...
Since Rufus and Jason have covered Hobbes in such excellent detail thus far, my contribution to this...
Over at Daily Caller, Lisa De Pasquale frets about the sad fate of gay conservatives: Everyone from...
That’s the basic premise of my latest piece in The Atlantic: In a 5-4 decision in January...
“Tellarites do not argue for any reason; they simply argue.” –Ambassador Sarek On the “censorship” front: Here...
(Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6, and 7) In the late-Ninties, after reading Dava Sobel’s Longitude I became semi-obsessed with the...
We made two of them today.
Erik writes in one of his latest pieces at American Times: “…personally, but I see no reason...
Responding to BlaiseP’s post on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent Atlantic cover story, Somni451 raised a question about the...
When your biggest supporters in print are people who won’t vote for you, your campaign’s in trouble. ...
“Mr. Huntsman, who had struggled to live up to the soaring expectations of his candidacy…” Nobody can...
