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Sorry for the disappearance into the non-virtual world -- reality can be remarkably pressing at times. Former IMF economist Simon Johnson lo...

On top of recent reports alleging that IDF soldiers are admitting to killing Gazan civilians in cold blood , we now see this : In testimony ...

New to me is the website for the Tanner Lectures , including the page I've just linked with PDF's of nearly all the lectures, by an ...

Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas has always stayed out of the newspapers; biographers of Plath noted only that he was a marine biologist. Un...

Via Tyler Cowen , here's a TLS review of (really an abridged introduction to) a book of John Rawls's religious writings. Yes, the ...

Kung Fu Monkey reassures me that my childhood could have been worse: There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's...

Via la Bookslut , the translator of Orhan Pamuk's recent works, Maureen Freely (ha), tells us about Turkish : Turkish has no verb "...

On account of little procedural missteps like torturing the suspects , our prosecutions of the crimes of 9/11 have looked permanently stalle...

Picking up on our "conservative thought" theme, Alan Wolfe has a nice little post about who the great modern conservative thinker...

That's me for a while -- I'm performing one of the least enjoyable tasks of the legal profession, the writing of the Losing Reply Br...

Type "Lily Allen" into Amazon's search engine, and this is item no. 7 or so: Fuck You [Explicit] by Lily Allen (MP3 Download)...

I love this Nietzsche Family Circus juxtaposition . That quote ... that rope ... and Grandma in the backgroud ... jeepers, Dolly, what are ...

During the decades following the Qing Restoration of the 1860s, leading personalities, both Manchu and Chinese, tried to adapt Western devic...

Following up on my post about Russell Kirk's Portable Conservative Reader , I'll post occasionally on the readings therein. He begi...

Political Wire : Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) made quite a scene at Washington's Dulles airport last week when trying to catch a flight home...