Are conservatives dum-dums?

Posted by | 7:38 AM
As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a Goodfeather I've argued against the notion that "conservatism = stupidity." T...

Can't Can, and often do can argue with results!

Posted by | 8:36 AM
Conservatives before the stimulus: It can't work. Conservatives after the stimulus: Sure, the economy improved, but we can't know it...

Punishing our friends because our enemies are beyond our reach

Posted by | 1:04 PM
Via Ry, Andrew Sullivan discusses the Goldstone Report on Israel's Gaza incursion. Goldstone writes: In Gaza, I was surprised and shock...

A long Nobel line

Posted by | 1:18 PM
Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for winning the pseudo-Nobel Prize in Economics . Ostrom (a political scientist by tr...

Mercy vs. Irreversibility

Posted by | 2:23 PM
Via Ry, Ta-Nehisi Coats slams the Texas death-penalty system : Texas justice is essentially sorcery, and there will be people who say that ...

Earth to Johnson & Kwak: People kill people more easily with guns.

Posted by | 7:49 AM
Simon Johnson and James Kwak attempt to rebut the notion that massive Chinese reserve accumulation was a (the?) major cause of the U.S. hou...

Conservatives: If you're serious about putting our guns down, you go first

Posted by | 6:32 AM
In an email titled "Libs only care about the environment when it's not inconvenient to them part 4,938,824," Chris notes that ...

Once more unto the breach

Posted by | 8:05 AM
Eric Falkenstein blogs : I note many of today's full-time intellectuals, those writing about ideas, have no such humility. They think ev...

What's a "Darwinist"?

Posted by | 11:43 AM
A reader at Andrew Sullivan's blog asks : What is evil for the Darwinist? Simply an externality of the struggle of the fittest? For all ...

Exports, currencies, and credible threats

Posted by | 7:29 AM
I went to see Paul Krugman's lecture on globalization yesterday (part of a "festschrift" conference honoring a U of M professo...

Spouting a lot of pomo nonsense does little to lessen the power of science...

Posted by | 7:37 PM
They Might Be Giants has a new song out called " Science is Real ." Lyrics: Science is real From the Big Bang to DNA Science is re...