Good post."And now Lieberman is out there playing that 'toughness' card for John McCain. I just can't believe it. Back in 2006, I looked at Ned Lamont and I saw George McGovern. I looked at his supporters and I saw thousands of Abbie Hoffmans--almost like...
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Over at Slate, Melinda Henneberger and Dahlia Lithwick consider why Hillary Clinton won't get a speech on gender akin to the one Obama gave on race (and imagine what her.
Over at Slate, the XX factor team is dissecting the wardrobe choices of the candidates' wives last night (what color tie was Bill Clinton wearing? Anyone? Bueller?). They've honed in.
The Slate Legal Ladies make quick work of wingnut M. Edward Whelan's bully-style critiques of NY Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, and of the Times's seeming inability to fully stand up for her. Sure, ombudsman Clark Hoyt gives lip service to her lack of...
It's a somewhat delicious coincidence that the "Iron my Shirt" scandal has broken on the very same day as the Times published Gloria Steinem's op-ed column calling on women to.
Tom Scocca, taking Billy Beane hatred to the predictable next level:Or, as Beane says elsewhere in the book [Moneyball]: "Power is something that can be acquired. ... Good hitters develop.
Stephen Metcalf hits back at Saletan, and leaves a mark:The crux of Saletan's pieces was his Liberal Creationist analogy. The analogy is hopeless along several competing dimensions, but it reminded me of the Dilettante's First Law of Empirical Narcissism. In a moment of controversy, the...
Saletan:I missed something I could have picked up from a simple glance at Wikipedia.For the past five years, J. Philippe Rushton has been president of the Pioneer Fund, an organization.
While we're on the topic of Slate contrarians, here's Mickey reacting to the Korb/Katulis/Podesta op-ed:When you write a sentence like:the progress being made at the local level often undermines the.
And after all that, nothing. Saletan writes two columns purporting to demonstrate not simply that African-Americans are inherently intellectually inferior to whites, but that liberals who question this finding are anti-science. In other words, the science is so compelling that any argument against the racial...
The one thing that's fairly clear is that William Saletan doesn't understand the most compelling extant critiques of linking ethnicity with IQ. I'm unsure of two things, however. First, is.