Hopefully you've been reading Balkanization, which has added commentary from two of the best constitutional scholars currently writing--Mark Graber and Mark Tushnet--to already excellent blog. (I wish they would come on permanently, creating a lefty version of Volokh.) Anyway, Prof. Balkin has been poring over the...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The letter Economist editor Clive Crook wrote to Brad DeLong makes use of a ploy that, while a familiar tactic of wingnut hacks, is particularly dismaying coming from an intelligent conservative: He.
Lindsay Beyerstein draws our attention to a truly dismaying attempt to Johnny Cash as a symbol for Republican politics. Appalling. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten.
When I was in Montreal on Wednesday, two justices were appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court. Media coverage has focused on the fact that 1)the Canadian court now has an apparently unprecedented gender near balance, with 4 of the 9 justices being women, and 2)both justices...
In a coup for the blogosphere, fafblog obtains a rare interview with the President.
I was planning about blogging about this, as I took Harper's to read on the plane to Montreal and was dismayed to see that the Lapham essay was extra-long, hence taking.
Roy Edroso recently did a nice job skewering this silly argument, which Prof. InstaHack liked so much he repeated it again today. Said the sage of Knoxville: Lyndon Baines Johnson was another President with a silver star and a short combat career who seemed to...
My inagural NYC post. I will note only that 1)it is blistering hot, 2)my stuff arrived four hours late, and 3)my desk was destroyed.
Like the Iraq war but more so, the candidacy of Alan Keyes is a nice way to separate garden-variety hacks from the true virtuosos. Somewhat disappointingly, many reactionary pundits and.
Dahlia Lithwick--yet another guest columnist who would be a vast improvement over a majority of the current crew on the Times op-ed page--has a good column about "judicial activism." She summarizes the conventional wisdom as follows: Together then: Liberal activist judges make law, as opposed to...
I see that Wan Juilliams is at it again, this time on that thatliberalNPR, pitching the same abject nonsense about the allegedly effective strategy George Bush is cooking up to appeal to.
One of the many great features on baseball reference.com is a feature that allows you to look up the players who share your birthday. (And to think my degree only.