Author: James Poulos

By Jul 03,2008

Screwing the SCOTUS Pooch

Here’s a horrible idea: Justice Kennedy, for example, could simply write, “I agree with many of the arguments by four of my colleagues that statute X is unconstitutional, but I...

By Jul 03,2008

Unbreakable

That’s liberal/progressive blogger Brian Beutler, apparently, who had his spleen vented for him in the unsatisfying sense by some contemptible little bastard on the wrong side of Adams Morgan. I...

By Jul 02,2008

'Christianism'

A lot of spluttering is taking place over the possibility certainty that Barack Obama is a ‘Christianist’ of some kind or another: see Rod (II), Daniel, Ross, Andrew (II), Ambinder....

By Jul 02,2008

Chinese Democracy: Our Gitmo Rulebook

Well this is embarrassing: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques”...

By Jul 02,2008

Two Anti-Stupid Strategies: Foiled?

Ross asks if the iPhone is making us stupid. [Walter] Mossberg delivered this assessment [at the Aspen Ideas Festival] with a strong note of techno-pessimism woven in: A lot of...

By Jul 01,2008

Shock the Monkey, Go to Jail

At Slate, Bill Saletan takes a crack at ape rights in Spain. I must admit, I have zero problem with extending legal protections to animal species on the basis of...