Douthat applies the same tortured logic he uses to discuss abortion and gay marriage to euthanasia, promoting state sanction and imprisonment for those who would engage in assisted suicide without providing any concrete reason why. That he talks proudly about how Swiss doctor Ludwig Minelli...
Author: Erik Loomis
Now that I'm writing at a site with something I understand is called "readership," I thought I might revisit a few older ideas of mine from time to time. I.
I'm grading AP US History exams this week. It's not a particularly fun process. Most of the tests are not very good. But it drives me INSANE that the other.
In the comments to yesterday's post on German Civil War reenactors, people mentioned Germans' love of westerns. This reminded of the remarkable box set released by First Run Features a few years of East German westerns from the 1960s. While I'd be hard pressed to...
This is a day where death has dominated the headlines--Jack Kevorkian, the American economy, Marshall Matt Dillon. But I want to say a special word about the recently deceased Geronimo.
Yoni Applebaum has an interesting piece on the popularity of reenacting the U.S. Civil War in Germany. While one might poo-poo any real analysis of this as being just Gone.
Over at the United Steelworkers blog, Dean Baker unloads on Alan Simpson and the idea that Simpson knows anything useful about Social Security: Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson has been a holy terror ever since he was appointed by President Obama to co-chair his deficit...
I'd like to start my first post at LGM by thanking everyone else here for asking me to join the blog. I've been blogging in obscurity at Alterdestiny since 2004.
The decline in affirmative action over the last several years should be a major cause for concern for anyone interested in social justice. We often hear from rightwingers how affirmative.