David Leonhardt writing in the NyTimes: But while Washington has been preoccupied with stimulus and bailouts, another,...
Helen Rittlemeyer thinks I’m talking trash about her kind of conservatism. In a previous post, I wrote:...
by Kyle Moore (Note: this post is MOSTLY ripped straight from my comments to one of Scott’s...
Professor Joseph Wagner of Colgate University, one of the three professors who most influenced the development of...
Freddie asks: Hey, why would someone like me be more invested in building a legal defense of...
Last night, which happened to be International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I attended a lecture by Pulitzer prize...
Hey, why would someone like me be more invested in building a legal defense of gay marriage...
To Chris’ comments  about the banks and the knowledge of the debt that they hold, this is generally...
There is much ado today about the fact that Obama, apparently in response to conservatives’ objections, has...
Reading over the various responses to Ross Douthat’s piece on celestial teapots and the Flying Spaghetti Monster,...
Following up on ED’s post (and the sad 60 Minutes video), here is another video on the...
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, it is the settlements more than anything else that prevent a...
This post grows out of some discussion Freddie and I have participated in over at The Confabulum ...
(The video above in part inspired me to write this post. I’m including it for context. This...
The funny thing about my political writing is that it has been, from the beginning, very public....
PSong of Man Chipping an Arrowhead by WS Merwin Little children, you will all go but the...
It’s gratifying to be away from the Internet for a day, and come back to find a...
Apropos of Scott’s reflections on a potentially more nimble stance of the US in foreign policy, as...
An important thing to note when discussing various forms of conservatism is the difference, often-overlooked, between social...
In an earlier post in this series, E.D. wrote that “the talking-head class–the hyper-partisan commentariat–first of all...
