The things people desire can generally be broken down into three categories: Money, power, and influence
power
Electricity doesn't come from the wall socket.
Burt Likko thinks that Citizens United and McCutcheon were correctly decided. But how can he square that...
Modesty is a virtue, but its promotion has an unwholesome side.
There seems to be an inverse relationship between my colleagues’ talent and skills as educators and their...
I read the below tweet from Megan McArdle about middle class driving habits (under the cut) while I...
I was getting ready to write something about the new Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA for...
Elias’ latest post gave me a little epiphany this morning. He mentions social Darwinism as a feature of...
The clergy-abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic church throughout the last decade has probably gained the most...
After listening to the audio, my sense is that there are only two likely rulings —
So I support unions, even government unions, because in the system we have there is no reason...
On the question of organized labor, outsourcing, and immigration Sam M writes: One complication, of course,...
‘Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,’ said the Rat. ‘And that’s something that doesn’t matter,...
Amy Sturgis reminds us that today is the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and she gives...
Conor has grappled with the implications of New York’s cultural dominance and with the socio-political constraints of...
We owe where we are to the habit — and the freedom — of tinkering. ~ Jason,...
A reader writes: Erik, as someone who lives in the Mighty Whitey Elite NY-DC Corridor, but who...
Responding to Scott’s argument (with which I agree almost entirely) that Andrew Sullivan’s obsession with Sarah Palin...
“I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling...
