My time to offer a substantive post was used up by reading all the excellent threads that have popped up in the recent days. Thanks to Carl for finding some good stuff in COPPERHEAD. That shows we can be fair and try to be balanced. Because he can’t help but tell the truth that it’s not . . . . Continue Reading »
Excellent analysis by Steve Negus of Morsi’s Year over at The Arabist. I briefly met Negus when teaching at Skidmore. Behind his calm objective tone, however, the real possibility of a horrendous civil conflict and/or coup stares out at you. And if you look at the other recent posts there, an . . . . Continue Reading »
I saw COPPERHEAD today. Were I a tough movie critic, I suppose I’d give it a C or a B-, mainly for dramatic shortcomings. But still, you should go see it in the theater if you can, because you know you’ll have oodles more chances to see Monsters U and Man of Steel and the new zombie movie . . . . Continue Reading »
Those with a mild concern for self-government in America might be feeling a little bit despondent this week. It seems that the people really don’t govern that much. Yes, elections matter, as the saying goes. But rule by an election is a different thing altogether from self-government. Self . . . . Continue Reading »
James Pethokoukis (who is usually one of my favorite bloggers) points to this study which argues that the US usually has a shortage of low-skill labor despite a thirty year decline in wages for low-skill workers. It turns out that even though the unemployment rate of workers with less than a high . . . . Continue Reading »
Not that there’s anything wrong with that . . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m working my way through Windsor , and I must say, Anthony Kennedy has never been worse—sophistry, casual matter-of-fact demonization, unclear basis for the decision, vague and repetitive phrasing, and a nauseating pretense of caring oh-so-much about how our federalist tradition . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Franck at NRO provides the best brass-tacks but fair and clear summary of what the two Supreme Court decisions, Windsor v. U.S. and Hollingsworth v. Perry actually did today. Also on NRO is Hadley Arkes’s more alarming interpretation. . . . . Continue Reading »
I actually think there are reasonable people on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate. Finally, the biggest thing wrong with Kennedy’s opinion is that its unhinged moralism—based as it is on a conception of dignity or personhood that’s has no real constitutional . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes, the Supreme Court struck down DOMA today, in U.S. v. Windsor . Kennedy was consistent. 5-4, what else. Hadley Arkes, in a piece from a few months ago , reminds us why the act was passed (85 to 14 in the Senate and 342 to 67 in the House) back in the hoary days of 1996. You know, . . . . Continue Reading »
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