Bad science used to justify torture: “. . . much of the research cited in okaying these “EITs” came from training that was used to prepare soldiers to have these same techniques being used...
Seriously. This isn’t exactly surprising, but Tim Carney has done yeomen’s work by digging through Wikileaks for the sleazy details.
I’m well off the pace of Freddie’s book club, but I’ve been meaning to write something about The Name of the Rose for some time now. Below, you’ll find a few half-formed thoughts on...
Peter Orszag’s new job at Citigroup is one of those under-discussed stories that makes me glad I read blogs. It also makes me depressed because I’m struggling to envision a plausible solution to the...
I encourage everyone to read this fantastic New York Times article on how competing regional and ethnic mythologies contributed to The Civil War. No surprise here: The Yankees started it!
I know I should be talking about Four Loko or Thomas Friedman’s latest column on the horrors of deliberative democracy, but the start of a really compelling NBA season demands some sports blogging. Despite...
Rufus, our rogue classicist, has written a smart response to that Chronicle of Higher Education article on a guy who makes his living writing students’ papers. In the original post, I kinda-sorta gestured at...
Interested in running? No? Read this New Yorker article about the United States’ marathon men anyway.
There are many things that can be said about this incredibly depressing article – written by a guy who makes a living writing papers for college students – from The Chronicle of Higher Education....
Read this hilarious blog post from a New York chef defending “Four Loko,” a controversial alcoholic energy drink that tastes like “malt liquor gummy bears.” I usually scoff at attempts to define our country’s...
The best part about this is the pretense that Biden doesn’t have time to be interviewed about a spate of hilarious Onion articles: A spokesman for Mr. Biden, Jay Carney, said the vice president...
Epistemic Closure Revisited Eons ago in blog-years, Julian Sanchez provoked some indignant responses by suggesting that conservatives are too dependent on a closed, self-referential media ecosystem. Sanchez’s original post elicited a sharp reply from...
Speaking as someone who knows nothing about economics, I found this primer on the Fed’s plan to buy $600 billion in government debt pretty helpful.
Overheard in the Newsroom makes me want to be a real journalist.
The League’s own Matthew Schmitz has a nice post on rural radio at First Thoughts.
A disgraced Congressman apologizes for his poor choice of costumes.
In high school, I was a self-described socialist. What this meant at the time, God only knows. Now I vacillate between agreeing with our smarter, more prolific blog contributors. If you go back through...
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