Ron Christie – whose credentials as a historian are, shall we say, limited – is also shocked...
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Julian Sanchez, a libertarian, recently wrote a smart post about “weak manning,” a fallacious kind of reasoning...
Matt Yglesias asks “Is bing better?” in reference to Microsoft’s new search engine which may or may...
I saw a group protesting the Chinese masscare of Uighurs here in Vancouver this evening on my...
Robert Wright, The Evolution of God — This is the first clip of a multi-clip interview between...
A worthy initiative to curtail prison rape.
Okay rule#1 it has to be unorthodox. No “flying” or “superhuman strength” lest I bust out my...
This time from Orson Scott Card. I second his recommendation of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
It might, in fact, make matters worse:
Andy McCarthy is angry: What does it say when the president of the United States is unable...
The First World War has always been a subject that I’ve wanted to learn about in great...
Google is announcing plans for a Google operating system: Google Chrome OS:
…after the leap…
Michael Lewis is one of my favorite financial writers and his new Vanity Fair article about the...
When Andrew Sullivan isn’t doing his best to erase any memory of his vital contribution to the...
"But, in a nutshell, the further one says the edge of one's sphere is from one, translates,...
I personally don’t care about Sarah Palin’s views on social issues, or that she hunted wolves from...
Conor flagged a piece in the Times by Walter Kirn, author of Lost in the Meritocracy: The...
John Whittet offers up some good advice for debating online. The post is specific to Newsvine, but...
Yesterday ED got a good conversation going in response to this question: How can anti-statists reconcile themselves...
