From hilzoy: “I am strongly pro-choice, but I think it is perfectly possible to be opposed to...
Alex Knapp has the definitive take on whether Jesus would have waterboarded, as some have claimed. It’s...
“It is out of characterfor the left to neglect the weak and helpless. The traditional mark of...
I realize I’m a little behind on this book (it came out last year), but my wife...
It seems the absurdity of Slate’s subheads and jumpheads that I’m always complaining about has caught the...
“Critchley leafs through the pages of his register and concludes, as did Montaigne, that the consolation of...
from Poem 64 by Catullus, translated by Horace Gregory (Some people don’t like Gregory’s translation because of...
…When a talk show host accuses someone who disagrees with them of hating their country or expresses...
At the risk of beating a dead horse, Jack Balkin pens a magnificent piece on how criticism...
A day late – I blame the holiday. This one is “Cathedral in Winter” by Ernst Ferdinand...
Noah Millman writes: But if we get a true dollar crisis, that calculus no longer obtains. If...
If only I had a few more years of marketing experience under my belt . . .
“Judge Sotomayor was raised in public housing? So was I. Her mother was a nurse working late...
Obama needs to release the photos, even if they do show pictures of the rape of detainees. ...
Using Geraldo Rivera as a barometer of Latino opinion is probably a bad idea, but there was...
1 a: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body b: a...
“If this evil monkey god wants to accompany me to the first committee meeting of the fall,...
How arrogant are the Lakers? Thanks for asking. So arrogant that they feel free to change the...
He says he’s in against Specter. Good for him. Pennsylvania is going deep blue. And the Penn...
After an unbearably over-hyped build-up, Barcelona’s 2-0 victory over Manchester United was pretty darn anti-climactic. Adding insult...
