What do Singapore, the United States, Canada, Denmark, and England all have in common? At first glance,...
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Via Politico, here’s O’Donnell’s old Catholic Exchange article on Tolkien and gender.
There’s a lot of good stuff in Jesse Walker’s review of Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky,...
A quick question about the O’Donnell win in Delaware: At what point does a candidate’s personal problems...
Oyster stouts? Yes, please.
Looking for a Fall reading list? You could do worse than a few of the titles from...
One interesting footnote from our recent debate over war and material self-interest is the question of the...
It’s official – every male who’s ever tossed a football is guilty of sexual harrasment: It was...
Via commenter Gilbert, who manages to tweak two League contributors in one fell swoop: The materialist theory...
Note: I hope I’m not boring everyone with these digressions into the history of the Crusades, but...
I’d highly recommend Walter Russell Meade on Melville’s Benito Cereno, a novella I remember slogging through in...
Striking, hilarious results from OkCupid (an online dating site) reveal what different ethnic groups are really into.
In an uncharacteristically silly post, Erik asserts that all wars are either defensive or driven by “plunder.”...
Psychology Today takes on the sad science of hipsterism.
Will global warming help make our Northern neighbor into a superpower?
Public Service Announcement: The League of Ordinary Gentlemen officially endorses letting your kid walk to school. Also:...
There’s a lot of interesting stuff in this Nation article on the Progressive split over China policy,...
Sacrilege, you say? Maybe not:
Michael Brendan Dougherty highlights an article suggesting that humanitarian interventions actually increase the likelihood of genocide and...
Well, this is interesting (via Grist): The world’s most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that...