Wading into Joe Carter and Conor Friedersdorf’s dustup on gay marriage, Andrew Sullivan writes that “there is no conflict whatever between religious liberty and civil same-sex marriage. . . ....
Gus Van Sant’s Milk, which was screened to early audiences in late November, had been preceded by months, and even years, of heightened anticipation—well before the storm clouds of the...
Mr. Yglesias spends some time doing what bloggers do, which is to say needlessly agonizing over large-scale questions like military interventionism. He declares the public conversation on preventing genocide in...
The folks at The New Republic have an idea: why not universal healthcare, right now, not just in spite of but because of the economic crisis? And the thing is,...
Reading this Newsweek piece by Fareed Zakaria brought to mind two points: 1) Zakaria is an interesting bird, belonging to a school of thought that might be termed “declinism, except.”...
Check out this Times piece: A few weeks ago, a check for $491,000 was delivered to a small private middle school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, De La...
