As someone who’s a big promoter of the Rawlsian project of Political Liberalism, I’ve found myself having some second thoughts occasioned, in part, by this very good TNR essay. I still think we ultimately want a political order that begins with the premise that deep pluralism is an ineradicable corrolary of freedom of conscience, and […]

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So I rember thinking that the AI online game known as “The Beast” was pretty cool, though I only discovered it long after it was over. Well, there’s another pretty cool looking one now in progress, run by Sharp. Potentially addictive looking…

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It’s hard to sufficiently emphasize the jaw-dropping power of David Brooks’ Times column from this weekend. Brooks reports, in essence, that the career analysts at the CIA are so appalled at the manipulative cherry-picking of their bosses in the White House that they’ve been pushed to the point of leaking pre-war analyses, so that when […]

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Laugh so you don’t cry: To explain [how a future invasion of Iran might play out] he spent thirty minutes presenting the very sorts of slides most likely to impress civilians: those with sweeping arrows indicating the rapid movement of men across terrain. When the exercise was over, I told David Kay that an observer […]

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Salon is perplexed by two versions of the “Bush’s bulge” explanation. One: Sources in the Secret Service told The Hill that Bush was wearing a bulletproof vest, as he does most of the time when appearing in public. The president’s handlers did not want to admit as much during the campaign, for fear of disclosing […]

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I was browsing over to Will Wilkinson‘s site the other day and accidentally punched in a “.com” at the end of the URL instead of the usual “.net” that Will owns. And as far as I can tell, that Will Wilkinson is some sort of weird anti-matter version of our will. I’m thinking of trying […]

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Strong Bad gives Parker and Stone a run for their money.

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I just saw a re-airing of the first post election Daily Show and the levels of Blue Rage are off the charts. Often it was fairly amusing (Stephen Colbert: “You see, John, here in New York, we’re too close to the terrorism and the gay people. The red states are far enough away to take […]

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I’m going to take a break from sniping at your friend and mine Will Wilkinson to congratulate him on his new gig in the big glass cube of Mass Ave, Cato.

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“The New Minority Party” looks at the potential for a little small-government insurgency within the GOP.

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