By • Aug 20,2008

Dare to be Stupid

I’m sorry, but of the many compelling (or intriguing, or plausible) arguments for why African-Americans should have their own search engine, this is not one of them: […] a black...

By • Aug 20,2008

Salam for Slice

Reihan suggests that either McCain or Obama pick Kimbo Slice for the VP slot. This is a movement I can get behind. Instead of a debate we could have a...

By • Aug 20,2008

No libruls on the teevees

Matt says: Phil Donahue got fired from his political talk show simply for being too liberal. To which I say: wait, what? You mean the fact that he was drawing...

By • Aug 19,2008

Torture or not torture, cont.

Though I think we’re quickly approaching the land of diminishing returns, this is my response to John Schwenkler’s response to my response to his criticism of my argument that segregating...

By • Aug 19,2008

Why Does She Bother?

Anne Applebaum’s latest Slate column on Russia comes with a may-jor caveat: the word superficial is worth repeating here […]. As in, Applebaum concedes that her whole column is strung...

By • Aug 19,2008

Postmodern Toughness

Robert Kagan has a great, long article in The Weekly Standard about how wrong Fukuyama was and how right the other guys (i.e. himself) were about the end of history...