A few weeks (months?) ago, David kicked off an interesting discussion on gay culture and sexual orientation....
Will
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From Foreign Policy: There seems to be a pattern of mediocre sons from elite families becoming terrorists.
Here’s a good essay on Thomas Disch, the acclaimed (and slightly crazed) science fiction author. Disch is...
Conor Friedersdorf’s valiant attempt to convert Levin fans irresistibly recalls The Guardian’s 2004 letter writing campaign to...
As a counterpoint to Jonathan Raban’s negative review of Red Tory, here’s Philip Blond in The American...
If I’m not mistaken, legislation in New York that would automatically enroll people as organ donors with...
From the NYRBlog: In a country in which schools seem to teach less literature every year, where...
Good stuff from the blogosphere’s resident stats guru.
The annoying tendency of opposition parties to pick really dumb nits is exacerbated by the fact that...
Great essay from Alyssa Rosenberg on pop culture criticism:
Here’s a provocative post from Stanley Fish: To anyone who has been following First Amendment jurisprudence in...
Strange Maps posts a picture of what was nearly our 49th state, carved out of the California...
German city bankrolls bar for unemployed alcoholics:
After watching his excellent Bloggingheads dialogue, I stumbled across the website of Canadian science fiction author Peter...
Anyone frustrated by our government can at least take comfort in the fact that Silvio Berlusconi isn’t...
For would-be architects: The Washington Post ran an article on my parents’ lovely modernist neighborhood.
One response to the debate over conservatism and “epistemic closure” has been to argue that, well, conservatism...
Well, this is a must-read. Jim Manzi takes a baseball bat to Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny:
Jason’s 4/20 cri de coeur is well taken, but here’s a bit of hopeful news on the...
My favorite highlight from Gawker’s incredibly thorough (and kind of creepy) oppo dump on Mickey Kaus’s senate...