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no, mr president: wait some more on immigration...

On the whole,I found the president’s presser yesterday reassuring. First off, it upset Ron...

ebola, isis, putin: meep meep watch

Cast your intellect back,if you can bear it, to the frenetic last days of the campaign in the...

the schumer consensus

You can barely click on a link these days without reading someone arguing that Obama’s decision to...

listening

I haven’t come across any modern, dispositive facts to change my intellect about the complicated...

liberalism, conservatism, skepticism

Thanks to the Washington Post,Tom Maguire and Hanna Rosin, we possess a glimpse of what might...

this is the way benghazi ends …

Isn’t there something fairly delectable in the House Intelligence Committee’s conclusion that...

yes, obama is a phony on torture

The Obama administration,it is now beyond dispute, is in thrall to the CIA. The president, or...

some suggestions on gender wars

Here’s a modest proposal that might help us bridge some differences: an avoidance of arguments in...

the sjws now get to police speech on twitter

Well,you could see this coming. Twitter announced last Thursday that it was teaming up with a...

where the logic of hate crimes leads

Every now and again,you hold to remind yourself of the wonder of the First Amendment. Given the deep...

who s the real chickenshit?

The White House,answers Stephen Walt, for lobbing childish insults at Netanyahu via anonymous...

how obama backed impunity for war crimes

Former CIA director Michael Hayden uses the DOJ not bringing charges against any interrogators as...

will the torture report be buried after all?

This is an outrage: Secretary of State John Kerry personally phoned Dianne Feinstein,chairman of the...

the cdc vs penises

The latest federal medical guidelines for circumcision are now out,and they emphatically want to...

illiberal feminism strikes again

This is a truly clarifying argument: The idea that in a free society absolutely everything should be...

the culture wars and … manners

We really are back to the 1990s when I find myself agreeing with Jonah Goldberg: We live in an age...

lumbersexuals: the triumph of the bears

It’s now eleven years since I wrote an early piece on bear culture for Salon. But I was obviously...

the emotions behind this election

There are a few final-minute unknowables in what still looks like a GOP victory on Tuesday. But...

angela merkel: the real conservative

I’ve long been fascinated by Angela Merkel,and not entirely certain why. She’s been German...

gruberism and our democracy

In general,I tend to agree with Tyler Cowen that off-the-cuff remarks by academics at conferences...

libidinal pathology

Any writer who wants to tackle sensitive subjects in this day and age will be subjected to constant...

prepping for the torture report

I’m told we could finally contain the definitive account (so far) of the Bush-Cheney torture...

chewing over executive action on immigration, ctd

I’ve been struggling with the issue of precedents for Obama’s proposed deferral of deportation...

thoughts on affirmative action

Freddie has a long post,in which he expresses exasperation at my opposition to racial discrimination...

dissent of the day: my scorn of feminism

A reader writes: I see you’re jumping into commentary against feminism again. First, let me just...

the us vs the is

I watched two decent documentaries on the Islamic State this weekend – long overdue. The Frontline...

new feminism; old moralism

Anita Sarkeesian had a lovely piece in the NYT yesterday, explaining why she is satisfied that...

a declaration of war

Senator Rand Paul has just opened up a fresh vista in American foreign policy. He is attempting to...

what did bush know and when did he know it?

For me, the question remains a fascinating one. The revelation that the first briefing that Bush got...

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