Irrational Robot has a great post on the "intelligent design" movement. Upside, they haven't made as much progress as they've claimed. Downside, they're trying very hard. The geeky negative angle: In the middle-earth of public school academia, we've been letting Mordor gather power for too long,...
Ed Kilgore makes an excellent point: If supporting the "culture of life" in one case in Florida requires an emergency congressional session, then perhaps when John Bolton's nomination for ambassador.
1904-2005. George Kennan advocated a sensible approach to the Soviet Union, one that recognized the dangers but refused to inflate them. He was one of our last links with the.
Yglesias, Justin Logan, and Tim Lee have been having a conversation about the utility of international institutions. More or less, Yglesias argues that John Bolton is a bad guy for wanting to kill the UN rather than reform it, Logan suggests that Yglesias is a blind...
Is there any other word that can explain this nonsense? The question of whether or not Mark McGwire used steroids in somehow of great national importance? Smoke. Mirrors.
We know that the security case for the Iraqi war is gone. Saddam had no weapons and no weapons programs to speak of, and Iraq's conventional capabilities were meagre. We.
With Rob and Lindsay having spoken, I suppose I should put forth my best of the 90s list. Like Rob. I don't think there's any question that the 90s were far deeper than the 80s; indeed, in terms of the sheer number of excellent movies I think...
Eugene Volokh, while often one of the best conservative bloggers, has always teetered precariously over the shark tank of wingnuttery, and now he's dived right in. (Admittedly, Jim Henley accurately saw this.
Shorter Christopher Hitchens: The fact that there was extensive looting of conventional weapons after the American invasion of Iraq proves that people who claim that there were no WMDs in Iraq.
Trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear, Hitch is insisting once again that we've found WMD in Iraq. Well, maybe not WMD, but machinery, equipment, and buildings that, if used properly by skilled people, might be able to fashion something roughly akin to...
Via Crooked Timber, Juan Cole discusses the current state of Fallujah. Readers often write in for an update on Fallujah. I am sorry to say that there is no Fallujah to update..
Via a comment by praktike, I don't think this Jonah Goldberg column needs much in the way of further comment, although as part of the cat-blogging sector of the blogopshere we must.