Put Huckabee's Thing Down, Flip It, and Reverse It
By • May 29,2008

Put Huckabee's Thing Down, Flip It, and Reverse It

Mike Huckabee denounces libertarianism as a “heartless, callous, soulless type of economic conservatism” that poses “the greatest threat to classic Republicanism” and is “not an American message.” Justin Logan blows...

By • May 29,2008

Battle Royale

As James mentioned last week, Battle Royale is a fine example of modern Japanese cinema. And here comes the AV Club with tons more info on the film. One quibble,...

By • May 29,2008

Copying without plagiarizing

Ever since I got into the journalism biz–way back in the halcyon days of 2004–I’ve noticed an interesting dilemma: Journalists at large, national outlets will steal ideas and other people’s...

By • May 29,2008

Is Freedom Antidemocratic?

That’s a heavily rhetorical question that I might not live up to in this post, but I’ll try anyway for the purposes of casting a sharp, counterintuitive argument in the...

By • May 29,2008

Mechanical Animals: Still Animals

Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to...