My apologies to readers and commenters here at the League for the rather peculiar happenings in this...
Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
Adam Serwer searches for the slimmest of silver linings in the government’s effort to charge Julian Assange...
I think one of the driving tensions in my own internal political ecology arises between the components...
Good for Michael Moore – a man I rarely see eye-to-eye with – for posting Julian Assange’s...
So Reid brought DADT (as part of the Defense Authorization Bill) to a vote. It failed to...
In the comments, E.C. Gach imagines a charter school I’d certainly get behind: So what if in...
Timothy Lee has a really good post up responding to Reihan Salam on the merits of the...
I had trouble reading Radley Balko’s article on the saga of Cory Maye. I picture this young...
Let me know if you’re having any problems with the site. I’ve got some stuff I’m working...
If the publisher of a small website dedicated to the dissemination of the state-secrets of the Chinese...
“In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes...
This is neat, but I’m so paranoid that I immediately started thinking about all the privacy implications,...
I come down closer to Jamelle Bouie’s side of the Hobbit argument than Adam Serwer’s. Jamelle argues...
[updated – I, II] Andrew Sullivan has an odd post up about the debt and Obama. First,...
“If secrecy is necessary for national security and effective diplomacy, it is also inevitable that the prerogative...
Okay. So everyone is right and everyone is talking past one another. I responded to James Fallows...
League alumnus Freddie deBoer is hosting a book club on Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose:...
Commenter Geoff Arnolds points us to this James Fallows piece. Fallows takes issue with the Douthat column...
“It’s important to remember, though, that we’ve empowered the government to do this. We’ve decided, collectively, that...
More often than not, Andy McCarthy and I simply don’t see eye to eye. For instance, his...