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Matt Yglesias writes : [C]ompare attitudes toward Putin's illiberalism to attitudes toward friendlier petro-states like Saudi Arabia, Qa...
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Matt Yglesias writes : [C]ompare attitudes toward Putin's illiberalism to attitudes toward friendlier petro-states like Saudi Arabia, Qa...Injustice anywhere
Posted by Unknown | 5:19 PM
In Slate , Anne Applebaum tries to explain why there are so few Western feminists campaigning against the horrific repression of women in S...
The math of abstinence education
Posted by Unknown | 1:41 PM
I'm pretty happy to see that more and more states are refusing federal money for "abstinence only" education . All the evidenc...
Palestinian armchair quarterbacking
Posted by Unknown | 10:33 AM
Ahmed Samih Khalidi writes in the Guardian that a Palestinian state would be bad for Palestinians : Today, the Palestinian state is largely...
No, YOUR religion sucks
Posted by Unknown | 11:03 AM
Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, is about to release an article in the New York Times magazine asking "Don't Mormons believe tha...
Michael Jordan disses the NBA
Posted by Unknown | 7:07 AM
I was pretty shocked this morning to wake up and read that Paul Samuelson is no longer a free trader . For those who don't know, Paul Sa...
12 years from now
Posted by Unknown | 10:23 PM
From an international survey conducted by a German research organization: More and more people in China and other leading countries expect ...
Oh look, a Republican whining about diversity
Posted by Unknown | 7:06 PM
In the Washington Post , Robert Maranto laments the lack of conservatives in academia . This is a common lament among Republicans, who sudde...
Yew got it
Posted by Unknown | 5:55 PM
Writing in Forbes , Singaporean elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew - possibly Asia's most respected modern leader - explains why nations fear ...
Wanted: Better atheist PR
Posted by Unknown | 4:26 PM
Most reviews of the movie The Golden Compass have come in negative . The movie is an adaptation of the first book in Philip Pullman's fa...
On second thought, soak the poor...
Posted by Unknown | 5:48 PM
Looks like I was wrong about the Bush subprime mortgage bailout plan helping the por at the expense of the rich. Looks like it actually won...
Chinese historical supremacy debunked
Posted by Unknown | 12:49 PM
A fairly anodyne Financial Times editorial about racism contains this little aside: Chinese long pre-dated European civilisation. From this...
But everybody else likes them
Posted by Unknown | 9:53 AM
Carrie Brownstein, a former rocker (of Sleater-Kinney) and current writer and NPR contributor, writes that Radiohead just leaves her cold . ...
Onward Muslim soldiers
Posted by Unknown | 9:04 PM
Matt Yglesias takes up the question of whether Islam is in the middle of, or possibly about to have, its own Reformation. I usually think s...
Soak the rich!
Posted by Unknown | 1:18 PM
There's a Sword of Damocles hanging over the head of the U.S. economy - a huge number of adjustable-rate mortgages are about to reset f...