The Dish, an invaluable aggregator of news, opinions, and general interest minutia, to which I am a subscriber, has been more blindly emotional and demagogic than usual in recent days. The Tsarnaevs’ bombing of the...
The score for Bioshock Infinite currently hovers around 95%. Some have loved it, others not so much. Everyone though, including those in the middle, have had plenty to say about it. Below Jaybird and I...
Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, “Dark Wings, Dark Words,” was the first one I watched all by my lonesome. Sipping some gin and finishing off the remnants of a week old chocolate...
According to the New York Times, Chris Hayes will be replacing Ed Schultz as the 8PM lead-in to Rachel Maddow’s program on MSNBC.
Noah Smith has a plan for closing the “wealth gap.” The solution? Thrift!
At various times during the past 24 hours I’ve tried to log in to ComiXology on my tablet with no success. That was, of course, because of a recent announcement Marvel made at SXSW....
Writer says writing is dying–or maybe it’s just really hard to make a living doing it–or something like that.
(The above is a screenshot of the Atlantic’s homepage taken March 10th around 11:30PM. A recap of SNL skits sits next to an article about nuclear war and above a photo series depiciting international...
I am not anti-family values. I do not think that “what a family consists of” can be endlessly reconfigured without consequence. There are causes and effects, particular familial institutions and outcomes associated with them. But I...
Doug Henwood summarizes an important decline in the reading level of State of the Union addresses,
At the Atlantic, an article by three professors was published which sought to examine the claim that “Pakistanis all hate the drone war.” For someone like me this is a useless bit of analysis. Indeed,...
Andrew Sullivan rounds up some reactions to a new ad by one largest distributors of beverages in the world:
Kathryn Bigelow’s op-ed in the L.A. Times rebutting criticisms of her film is about more than Zero Dark Thirty. The piece also demonstrates a tendency that’s only all to frequent when it comes to the...
I went into Zero Dark Thirty with several preconceptions. I followed the debate between film critics and political journalists very closely. I was aware of the movie’s major plot points and already had a list of key...
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so...
[Belated Preface-12/29/2012-: My original intention with sharing the below experience was to set a rather basic philosophic question in a rhetorical situation that might prove more resonant. This is about me, but it actually...
I agree with Aaron Bady that a strain of overwrought techno-utopianism cripples Clay Shirky’s analsysis of higher education in key places. Reading “Napster, Udacity, and the Academy,” it is at times almost impossible to stomach Shirky’s disingenuous...
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Charity. Here is the introductory post for the Symposium. Here is a list of all posts so far. When THQ, a company which publishes...
Decadence: “moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury”—Oxford English Dictionary Online. Douthat tries to rebut critics of his Sunday column. The original article is full of dubious claims...
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on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassOne of the things that I don't understand from Pro-Palestinian Westerners is how they keep on insist…
on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassThink of all the bricks that get thrown at BLM. The theory of building a minority organization is di… on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassWhen I read the wiki on the alleged sex crimes during the attack we seem to have a large volume of c… on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassOne of the issues with "subtract the situation" is "everything we know could be wrong". So for examp… on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassThe time frame is more complicated. Even after the Six Day War, it was seen as a larger Israel-Arab…
on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassIf you haven't seen this, you should. It's only a few seconds and it's really a treat. (Note: You sh… on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassThe underdog status ended after the Six Day War over there. It's wobbly over here but there are stil… on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassI also expect that the period where Jews were seen as an underdog was short and not entirely univers…
on The Shifting Politics of AbortionThe two big stories of political geography in the US over the last 30 years is the huge swing from b… on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassAnd what really pisses me off isn't necessarily the anti-Zionism per se but just treating Jews as di…
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