Bad science used to justify torture: “. . . much of the research cited in okaying these...
Will
Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.
Seriously. This isn’t exactly surprising, but Tim Carney has done yeomen’s work by digging through Wikileaks for...
I’m well off the pace of Freddie’s book club, but I’ve been meaning to write something about...
Here’s a fun article on the history of the now-ubiquitous suit:
Peter Orszag’s new job at Citigroup is one of those under-discussed stories that makes me glad I...
I encourage everyone to read this fantastic New York Times article on how competing regional and ethnic...
I know I should be talking about Four Loko or Thomas Friedman’s latest column on the horrors...
Rufus, our rogue classicist, has written a smart response to that Chronicle of Higher Education article on...
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...
Read this hilarious blog post from a New York chef defending “Four Loko,” a controversial alcoholic energy...
The best part about this is the pretense that Biden doesn’t have time to be interviewed about...
Epistemic Closure Revisited Eons ago in blog-years, Julian Sanchez provoked some indignant responses by suggesting that conservatives...
Speaking as someone who knows nothing about economics, I found this primer on the Fed’s plan to...
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.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a live version worth posting on YouTube:
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....