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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
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...
Pax Americana RIP
Posted by Unknown | 10:25 AM
Jonah Goldberg, who has somehow gotten a writing job with the L.A. Times , writes that America is not an empire, it just leads the free worl...
Race and Intelligence, Parts 2 through 1,000,000
Posted by Unknown | 4:55 PM
And just when we thought the whole "race and intelligence" thing was dying down, here comes Slate 's William Saletan with a hu...
This is only the beginning
Posted by Unknown | 1:07 PM
Some people will read about how researchers have made stem cells out of skin cells , and conclude that the effort of theocratic conservative...
