Best known for The Battle of Algiers, Pontecorvo died yesterday in Rome. I watched this film again this past summer, a delayed reaction to this post written by Rob a year ago. The "Three Women/Three Bombs" sequence -- from which this clip is taken -- is...
Not surprisingly, the recent Lancet study has lead to a plague of unremitting hackdom. One of these hacks, however, has proudly claimed his rightful title. I give him points for.
In response to my claim that the exemption of women from punishment under laws banning abortion is fatally incoherent, a commenter here (as a TAPPED commenter did earlier) invokes Ronald.
I can't comment substantively on the proposed French law that would criminalize the denial of the World War I-era Armenian genocide. I know too little about French politics to predict whether it will pass or not (though some of the reporting suggests it probably won't), and...
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Mark Lynch of Abu Aardvark has just rolled out a new Middle Eastern "blog-journal," Qahwa Sada (which evidently means "black coffee"). Lynch explains the premise:Why a new blog-journal by Middle.
In response to this post, one Seth Edenbaum--who seems to think that his silly point is such an astounding insight that he cut and pasted it to another post (with some Lee Siegelesque rants about yuppies and Willaimsburg) --says:The issue is not one of internal consistency....
I won't waste your time mocking this Marty Peretz post, which is an act of considerable constraint. He statements about the quality and reputation of Catholic Universities as a whole.
Admittedly, when it comes to illogic on the part of supporters of criminalized abortion, the rape and incest exemptions are relatively small potatoes. What really gives away the show is.
In addition to throwing a competent knuckleball and embarking on a genuine, wake-up-in-a-ditch bender, it's been a lifelong ambition of mine to write an article on foreign affairs for The Weekly Standard. It can't be that difficult, as Waller Newell demonstrates this week in yet another...
A brief public service announcement here to any new or soon-to-be new parents in the greater LG&M area: I cannot recommend strongly enough against giving your sick, six-month-old child a.
As Scott predicted and Dave shows, the updated Lancet study is going to make for some good hack-watching. Over at the Corner, Pod the younger announces he's about to make.