By Jul 19,2009

Multiple cheers for polygamy!

My cultural intake the past couple of weeks has provided me with a strong dose of polygamy. Courtesy of Netflix, I am about to finish season two of Big Love,...

By Jul 17,2009

Gay rights and the American elite

The cover story in the current issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine recounts the remarkable progress toward equality and acceptance that gay students have made at Yale over the past...

By May 15,2009

Chutzpah

I was walking downtown around an hour ago. I saw a woman standing by a hot dog stand, holding a foil-wrapped dog that was already missing a few bites. As...

By Apr 08,2009

Thomas Hobbes on Bill Clinton

“For it is a great misfortune to a people, to come under the government of such a one, as knows not how to govern himself.” Thomas Hobbes, “Discourse upon the...