Unlike Matt Yglesias, I can't say I'm a libertarian per se even one minute of the day. Being a Canadian, even at my most libertarianish phase of adolescence I supported socialized medicine. I do have libertarian positions on a number of issues, though, so it is...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Since this is a little long to be included in comments, a couple of quick points about the possibility of a pro-life feminism. The first thing to say is that the.
In a recent article in which self-parody and self-congratulation fought each other to a draw, Prof. Reynolds made the following statement: The press has been in the tank for Kerry to.
Mark Kleiman is the first person I've seen to make this rather crucial point: Wouldn't it be astonishing if a major news organization turned out to have been as foolishly credulous about documents "proving" what some people in it wanted to believe about George W....
Tim Lambert has more on the article inexplicably discussed by the Times: The trouble with their study is that the economy was stronger under Clinton than under either Bush, so of.
In the midst of another dissection of Michelle Malkin's book, In Defense of the Indefensible, David Neiwert coins a useful term for the most common form of conservative argument: Malkin, in fact,.
My colleague can hardly be blamed for missing the real pinnacle of Bobo's recent column--the thing was really a cornucopia of insipidity. But try to imagine that anybody would write this: If you look at the big Kerry donors, you realize that the days of...
Matthew Yglesias makes a crucial point that isn't made often enough: In other words, a second Bush term will not merely continue down the current unsustainable course -- it will.
For me, one of the most difficult political questions is the ethics of outing for political purposes. It presents a conflict between two important principles: 1)the the profound injustice of.
I'm sure our regular readers (if any) were looking forward to receiving the kind of in-depth, Geertzian interpretive analysis that only a long-time New York resident of two weeks could provide. With the exception of the pro-choice rally on Saturday, however, I basically avoided the...
I must argue that my colleague, as well as the increasingly shrill Andrew Sullivan, have reached the right conclusion about the proposed constitutional amendments in the GOP platform for the wrong.
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.