Like a white knight (and I mean that in every sense of the phrase), Chuck Murray rides to the rescue of Larry Summers and all who would like to believe that innate genetic differences between men and women, and between whites and people of color, are the...
I vividly remember Johnny Carson's last show, in 1992. Why can I remember the year? Well, the same night I saw Lou Reed at the Theatre St. Denis (great show,.
I'm sure that this isn't literally without precedent, but the Steelers are 3 point underdogs today. I certainly can't remember a healthy home team being an underdog in a conference.
The best defense of Bush v. Gore was written by Richard Posner. It was still strikingly unpersuasive, but since Posner is a pragmatist it did have the advantage of not trying to pretend that the decision was principled or could be reconciled with the past jurisprudence of the...
Elton Beard catches the LA Times publishing some fake grass. (And it isn't even that shiny new Field Turf; it seems more like the worn-out turf they had at the.
As an interlude, I thought it would be useful to link to this old post, which brings up an empirical fact that rarely makes it into "counterintuitive" arguments about how the.
I promise that the name of this blog will not be changed to "Scott replies to Matthew Yglesias posts about judicial policy-making," but since I promised (threatened?) a legal defense of Roe v. Wade a couple of months ago before being derailed by grading and the flu, I...
In honor of MLK day, David Ehrenstein has a great post on John F. Kennedy's (The "F" stands for "It's never the right time") attempts to strenuously avoid any political risk.
There are two major potential drawbacks to litigation as a strategy. One--that it is particularly likely to generate a backlash--I recently discussed. The other is captured by Matthew Yglesias's "fat.
It's a shame that I have never heard of this before, because it sounds like the greatest thing ever. The idea for pairing Buckley and the unpredictable Vidal had come from Buckley himself, albeit in a back-handed manner. The network had asked him to name a liberal...
It's not every day that major bloggers are discussing the subject of my dissertation research, so I suppose I'll dive in to the discussion between Nathan Newman and Kevin Drum. This is.
Kevin Drum, Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Sullivan are largely untroubled by the fact that we've been carrying out covert operations in Iran in order to figure out the best targets for.