Scary bear
Matt Yglesias writes : [C]ompare attitudes toward Putin's illiberalism to attitudes toward friendlier petro-states like Saudi Arabia, Qa...
Injustice anywhere
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
Palestinian armchair quarterbacking
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
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
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
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
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
Writing in Forbes , Singaporean elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew - possibly Asia's most respected modern leader - explains why nations fear ...
Wanted: Better atheist PR
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...
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
A fairly anodyne Financial Times editorial about racism contains this little aside: Chinese long pre-dated European civilisation. From this...
Facile
File these two under "intellectually dishonest": 1. Tom Friedman writes that "none of the leading presidential candidates ha...
But everybody else likes them
Carrie Brownstein, a former rocker (of Sleater-Kinney) and current writer and NPR contributor, writes that Radiohead just leaves her cold . ...
Onward Muslim soldiers
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!
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...
