Thus Blogged Anderson

Asks Gabriel Josipovici : ... according to one leading academic, leading contemporary British authors such as Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and...

Rangel, however, insists that they are actually ethics commendations . Or maybe his side of the story is, they actually tased him? ( Yahoo! ...

Something that many attorneys have dreamed of, but just as you have to be Brad Pitt to atract an Angelina Jolie, so likewise you probably ha...

Another Kevin Drum post on the liberals' discontents, or "funk": Prior to 2008, what kinds of things had been on the lefty wi...

Via Emptywheel , news that Obama thinks you don't have shit for privacy : The administration wants to add just four words — “ electronic...

Tyler Cowen reports that Peter Watson has a new book out on The German Genius . Perhaps by now, Watson has developed an understanding of N...

Been reading a good bit of Philip Kerr lately, especially his Bernie Gunther "Marlowe amongst the Nazis" novels. Obviously I like...

Really, I keep looking at the new UK government covetously, like "I wish *I* had a government that talked like that." Latest inst...

My money would be on Fox Conner : Fox Conner (November 2, 1874-October 13, 1951) was a major general of the United States Army. He served as...

Geertz has encouraged a whole generation of anthropologists to parade their real or invented inner qualms and paralysis .... They agonize so...

The recent head of the UK's Security Service has been testifying about her office's evaluation of terrorism and Iraq. [Q. * * *] Ca...

Jon Chait notes that, for Title IX purposes at least, (one district court has held that) cheerleading isn't a "sport." TBA wou...

In the wake of the Shirley Sherrod debacle, Kevin Drum finds himself unable to imagine the conservative mindset, or heartset: On an intellec...

At some point, Rome no longer could maintain its roads and aqueducts, due in part to a declining tax base and the decay of central authority...

WASHINGTON—Barack Obama stands alone in the ruins of what was once his living room, calling out in vain for a dog that never comes. Less tha...