2008
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December 2008
- Come on, donate to Oxfam.
- Arise, Sir Nutter
- Asleep at the Wheel
- We will kill you if you go to school
- The Man Born to Be King
- Its a Marshmallow World
- Creationism Recapitulates Kirbyism
- Aiming At Amazon
- Saying thanks
- The exit door leads in, and other stories
- Harold Pinter is
- Christmas, 1941
- The future is a shoe being thrown at a human face – forever !
- Life Imitates Danny the Dealer
- Uh oh. Somebody cut the cake. I told them to wait for you, but they cut it anyway. There is still some left, though, if you hurry back.
- Where is the love?
- Applying Philosophy
- Amazon’s price discrimination
- A dramatic turn in the Belgian political crisis
- Black Swans and Dark Matter
- The real world
- Conor Cruise O’Brien Has Died
- Homeschooling Research and Scholarship
- A Tragic Sense of Life X-Mas!
- Robbing Gordon to pay Gordon
- Recipe Corner: Staffordshire Oatcakes
- Wild Rumpus
- “Bush-Era Culture” (Shudder)
- Zero
- Cooking with Campbell’s Soup
- What’s Wrong With Canada; a Wonderful, Awful Idea; More Haeckel; the Best Song of 2007
- They Bellow ‘Til We’re Deaf
- Freeman replies
- Ghostwritten
- Ricardian Effects
- Kast Skoen
- Outliers
- Mainly its servants
- Deck the halls with siphonophorae
- Stockings Hung From the Top Shelf With Care
- Workers’ Republic
- Twittery
- A glimmer of good news
- The Politics of Pragmatism
- A photograph of Jesus
- Hormones for toy choice
- Language requires what?
- Participation in the Networked Public Sphere
- Oliver Postgate is dead
- Kieran Healy and Jane Austen are now friends
- Sunday Joni Mitchell Blogging
- The economic lessons of World War II
- Alexander Thomas plays the theremin
- Some Bartenders Have the Gift of Pardon
- Grading Medical Students (and More on Grade Inflation)
- Horowitz vs Australia
- Idleness as a Point of Conscience: Nice Not-work (if you can get it)
- Gnomewatch Returns
- Brooks versus Brooks on A Broader Bolder Approach
- … why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a cutie?
- Michael Foot – A Life
- More on Peter Singer and Jamie Bérubé
- Insulting the Vatican
- Last Gasps
November 2008
- Bloggingheads on Mumbai Attacks
- Highly specialized instrument
- Larry Summers Makes Intemperate Remarks About Relative Intelligence Shocker!
- Looking through my wardrobe …
- The decline and fall of the London Irish Social Services industry
- It depends what ‘worst’ means
- The Alaska Mink
- Global Voices
- This sounds scary
- Survivors
- Ayers on Fresh Air
- Goodbye to the G-8
- Netflix Weirdness
- Center-Right Nation?
- Print, pixels and prescriptivism
- Monkey Cage Redirect
- Ahem
- End of the beginning?
- E-Fax hell
- All Free Songs Considered
- What do SUVs and luxury cars have in common?
- You Little Bobby Dazzler
- Global rules and regulators
- Make-work
- Grading Education
- Book cover
- Furious agreement, parts II and III
- When old age shall this generation waste ….
- Reading Cohen
- Free Daptone Records Sampler
- Furious agreement
- Quick Links (well, quick by my standards)
- Of Time and the City
- We’re In Ur Librariez, Controlling Ur Recordz
- 42 Writers for Liberty
- Also, You Have Not Been Exclusively Selected to Receive This Offer
- But Perhaps It Takes an Armchair Sociologist
- Arma diavlogumque cano
- Armistice Day
- Maurice Stonefrost is dead
- Legal Theory Lexicon Update on Distributive Justice
- Amity Shlaes: A Public Service Reminder
- Cognitive Disability Conference
- Images galore
- Bad models or bad modellers
- Budapest and Zürich meetups?
- Revolution as Fulfillment
- Amazon recommends
- Tough Choice
- Do not open this box until you have read the instructions inside!
- A tough road ahead
- Gelman brings the R
- Thought for the day
- Time of hope
- Surprise victory for McCain.
- Take Marx… Take Jesus… Take Hope…
- Go Vote!
- Last minute, pre-election rhetorical note
- Pipe Wrench Fight
- A puzzle about the polls
- Light In The Attic Sampler & You Don’t Love Me Yet
- Philosophy in the news ….
- The real crisis
- Gaybaiting
October 2008
- Studs Terkel is Dead
- Building up the Iron Cage
- Simple answers etc etc
- Slightly Different Thoughts About Expectations For Obama
- Nixonland: The Panel
- Expectations for Obama
- Which Sort of Conservative Was Hayek Not?
- Pretty Soon You’re Talking Real Money
- Short cuts
- Before; After
- Your Cool Halloween Decorations for the Day
- Your Cool Halloween Link for the Day
- More T-shirt thoughts & Wealth Spreading
- Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away …
- Information and elections
- Malicious SQL injection blues?
- Liberté, egalité, celebrité
- Sunday Blues Verificationism
- What does it all mean
- Leroy Carr Saturday
- Greenspan concedes
- Spread the Wealth
- JSTOR for books
- Le Plan returns?
- Accelerando
- Public Spheres, Blogospheres
- McCain: The Measure of a Maverick
- Pulling the plug?
- Let me be the first to welcome our new Socialist International Conspirator Overlords
- Obligatory post on McCain on Education Part 2: Fun with Vouchers.
- Sublime
- C’mon people, this fake news isn’t going to report itself!
- The program for a supermajority
- Obligatory Post on McCain on Education Part 1
- Backup, Backup, Backup
- Open positions
- Discredited
- Warts and all
- We Have a Winner!
- Those stupid bankers and their stupid stupidity
- Les Paul YouTube Friday
- Don’t scrap the squiggle!
- Asset price bubbles
- The Wikipedia deletion game
- Is fixing health care enough?
- The Moral Sense Test
- Exploding Heads Deathmatch: There Can Be Only One
- The Bounce
- The 42nd Parallel
- The Name of This Band is Exploding Heads
- “It’s a total surprise”
- Krugman wins Economics Nobel
- Horserace addendum
- Now we’re getting somewhere
- Surprising tastes
- Pink
- A bit of horserace commentary
- Making the revolution permanent?
- Ad hominem worries about global justice
- All socialists now?
- Brooksley Born and Alan Greenspan
- Al Franken Commercial
- Obama’s Plausibility plus Watching Watchmen
- Gibberish
- Remembering Alan Coren
- Which one?
- State capitalism on the instalment plan
- Cohort, age and period
- The Commanding Heights Revisited
- The Colors Out of Space
- Irony 2
- Others bring problems, I bring solutions
- Google 2001
- Spencer Foundation Initiative on Civic Learning and Civic Action
- Left Behind
- Analysing capitalism
September 2008
- GMU sued for Zotero
- More untimely stuff about disability
- Things to do in the New Year
- Republican talking point whack-a-mole, yet again
- Betting on yourself
- Political philosophy and the Paulson plan, a dialogue
- Paul Newman has died
- My Friends
- Classroom Advocacy
- You, on the other hand, are immediately available for comment. Why don’t you play WaMu for a while?
- Free markets: a proposed trade
- Braised Chunks of Karl Popper Served in Heavy Sauce
- What if they gave a presidential debate and nobody came?
- Psmith in the City
- The smartest guy in the room?
- Clinton on the bail-out
- Peter Camejo is dead
- Unspeaking the clean bailout
- 15 months of Belgian political mess
- Postgraduate Conference on Dr Who and All its Spin-offs in Cardiff
- No comment: an apology
- One of my favorite Web sites: WalkerTracker
- At Berkman
- Mother of All Bailouts
- How Much Music
- One Web Day is this Monday
- The Decline of ‘Virtue’
- Moral hazard, meet adverse selection
- Now for the really big one
- NEH grants for developing Philosophy courses
- The end of global deregulatory reform
- Farewell to the PDs
- Illness: a moving and important book
- Reiss forced out
- That didn’t last long
- What’s so great about the family anyway?
- Valuing Children
- How much is AIG worth?
- Crowdsourcing works!
- After all this time…
- Where has US household income gone ?
- Dealing with creationism
- Exit and Disloyalty
- Just sayin’
- I’ve heard of “think global, act local”
- Eileen Flynn has died
- Just a thought
- The Mechanisms of Nixonland
- Theory Tuesday
- Post-Summer Mystery Reading
- Hey Kids!
- Fannie and Freddie
- Teach First, Teach for America and Toynbee Hall
- Three Ponies and You’re Out!
- Presidential speech wordles
- Friday Woody Guthrie blogging
- Bonuses at Kent State
- Research ethics
- Multiple Intelligences
- Better Never to Have Been
- Best sporting nation?
- Fonts and Faces
- Would you rather be right, or make money?
- The Surprising Burdens of Care
August 2008
- New York, New York
- Open Sarah Palin Thread
- Real and fake
- Looking Forward
- Sloganeering
- Can you see dems?
- Digital Media and Learning Competition
- Political stock market punditry
- Smear Watch Smear Swatch
- Fortunes of war
- Good things about Los Angeles
- Work related info-bleg
- Projection Ain’t Just a Booth in The Movie Theater
- Wanting to get what you do not want
- Comedy Is Hard
- East Coast Bias
- Making a House a Whole
- Discounting Sunstein
- NATO, the EU and Russia
- Dark Knight
- We ain’t no delinquents
- Herr Professor Daddy? I didn’t think so.
- Those were the days…
- Grade Inflation
- Expert knows best
- Special issue on ideal and non-ideal theories of justice
- To Serve Man
- Big government, big IT
- The spread and tweaking (?) of misinformation
- Postcode lotteries
- Tumbling factoids?
- Territorial integrity norms
- Sociology refutes Economics (again)
- Jumping off the Edge of the American West
- South Ossetia
- Why Olympics coverage in the U.S. sucks
- Working women hurt their families
- Ref checking
- Wanting not to get what you want
- Straightforward answers to unnecessarily complicated questions, number whatever the hell it is now
- Letting the gini out of the bottle
- Yesterday on CT, tomorrow in government policy!
- Abominations of the World
- The great risk shift, yet again
- What’s the country coming to when an honest man can’t unfairly attack another honest man, personally, without that other man saying the unfair attack is against his whole race?
- Friday groove blogging: Stax/Volt
- Stuff elsewhere
- I wonder if they will accept donations denominated in Airmiles?
July 2008
- Putting the creativity back in creative capitalism
- Who wants to be a millionaire?
- Conference bingo
- Yet more on fiduciary obligation
- Not Guilty
- Creative uncommons?
- The Phoenix project
- Chick Flick
- Reading Comics and Watching Metropolis
- Painfully true
- We are ZCTU
- At the forefront of IP issues in GPL software
- Political philosophy podcast symposium
- The Riordans
- Back to the Futura
- Sacrilege!
- What obligation? Maximise what?
- Do you remember the first time?
- Michael Chertoff, Euroweenie
- Fiduciary obligation vs creative capitalism
- Playing the Building
- Minority Pre-Tort
- 24/7 Solar Madness
- Seriously, Beware Finland
- Book Review: “Savage Mules”
- Last Best Wordle
- Wordle
- More on accents
- Cory Doctorow at Firedoglake
- Interesting subway scene
- Bartlett, Zombies, Disraeli, Anarchism, Dr. Horrible
- Five Years Old
- “Outright gibberish”
- Happy Sunshine Kungfu Flower
- Ahead of her time
- Norm Enforcement is Hard, But People Do It Anyway
- Reversing Mass Imprisonment
- Posh Bostonians
- Necrotrends: The GOP Was The Party of Civil Rights
- The Eponymous Bone Is Not Connected to the Clue Bone
- Imitation and Influence
- Cartoonery
- What would it take to get a Washington Post op-ed columnist fired?
- Don’t Stop Destroyin’ This Heart Of Glass
- Good Stuff
- Computer dreams
- Why Did The Fathers of the American Revolution Hate America?
- Translation/explanation needed
- Origins of the netroots
- Here Come the Usual Suspects!
- Self-plagiarising myself on self-plagiarism
- Fortune magazine and the N-word
- Request for Literature: How come it’s so hard to explain Open Source to institutions?
- I could be wrong
- The Anxiety of Cookie Monster. I mean, Influence.
- Books about American politics
- Sideshow Bob
- Thomas Disch is dead
- Moral panic in Australia
- Contingency and solidarity
- Nerve gas tests
- The political economy of networks
- What have you been watching on YouTube lately?
- Radical scepticism
- Literature recommendations for mediated governance?
- Derbyshire on Bermondsey 1983
- A Dream About Dandys and Beanos
- Reading Comics
- Kicking the Irish Out
- Rights, permissions, duties ….
- Anthropology and Sociology: Can’t we all just get along?
- Travelling Matt
- Everything Old Is New Again
- Bumper Sticker
- Blogs, Participation and Polarization
- The unsustainable has run its course
- Footnotes and Heresies?
June 2008
- Online study groups: Threat or menace?
- Guestblogger: Clay Shirky
- Taking the Mickey
- Gender codes in daily life
- No idea more obscure and uncertain
- The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain
- Marks
- Skill-Biased Diaper Change
- Mickey Tax Update
- Shock of the New
- Gender differences in sharing creative content online
- Locus Winners
- The Mickey Tax
- A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
- Soft bigotry and low expectations
- Why are some online organizing efforts more successful than others?
- Mapping the political blogosphere
- Tom Slee has an announcement to make
- Videos on the tubes of the internets
- Map of things to do in Budapest
- Old School Tie (and a request for information)
- Kevin O’Rourke on the No vote in Ireland
- Kenworthy on Nixonland
- Elsewhere on the Internets
- Fat Americans
- That’s why they call it ‘democracy’
- Libertarians and global warming
- Ireland’s Lisbon Vote
- Silenusbleg
- Defending Rachel Carson: the last word
- A-Levels, O-Levels, GCSEs and degradation.
- Waldeck on Endowments again
- Vote Republican: We’re not THE Party of Corruption, Just A Party of Corruption
- Douthat on Conservatism
- Revisiting a topic given changes in the landscape
- Some Of These Things Are Not Like The Others
- Temeraire, dear old Temeraire
- Lisbon referendum
- To Justify Something Is To Diminish It?
- Nussbaum on Liberty of Conscience
- I Refute You Thus
- The importance of Web sites for academics
- CV for the academic job market
- The perfect exam paper
- “Terrorist Fist Jab”
- Fat Hominid
- Collective Action and Racial Segregation
- Money talks and the social construction of reality, walks
- The Great Library of Tlön
- Death to the Internets
- Private University Endowments
- Philosophers sought to think about education
- Amartya Sen’s 75th Birthday Party
- Wyndham and Kneale
- 101 Movies to avoid watching before you die.
- An that’s when the dinosaurs attack!
- Great Idea #63
- Peterhouse Blues
- Not Necessarily All in the Right Order
May 2008
- Liberalism as Pluralism
- Saudi Political Scientist Arrested By Secret Police
- The Fractal Self-Similarity of the Wingnut Function, Stephen Hayes edition
- Cool Waters
- The Great and Unremembered War
- Hugh Laurie’s accent
- Suck on this, Eurovision!
- Muto
- Fraktured Fairytales plus Discount Jellyroll
- Capital and labour in British terrorism
- Walk Score
- The Great Depression
- Spin and silence
- Hey Kids, More Euthyphro!
- Care Talk Blog
- New book on uncertainty
- Becoming Drusilla
- 2013
- Old research
- Money Ruins Everything
- Percy Gloom and Hieronymus B.
- Still Dead
- Last Best Gifts: Retaliation and the market for human blood and organs
- Liberal Neutrality Conference
- Render unto Caesar
- Prediction Markets in Republican Spin, continued and branched out from
- House size doubles?
- Leif Wenar and the resource curse: a Frankenstein proposal?
- Geuss on Rorty
- Quokkas safe
- This seems like a big deal to me …
- Blind Reviewer Voodoo Doll
- Dr Dr
- Rothstein and Hess on fixing schools
- More on Miliband and Pol Pot
- In praise of Rachel Carson
- Ironing out the rug rats
- More on the AHRC philistines
- Philosophy and illness
- Events galore this week
- Economic fundamentalism and the minimum wage
- After the dollar
- Unions: good for equity, good for efficiency
- What about violent necrophiliac gay bestiality?
- Schlafly’s honorary degree: a travesty of a mockery of a sham
- A vicious little merchant banker
- The Republican War on Science, yet again
- Teaching Controversial Issues to High Schoolers
- Pain and inequality
- The Iraq War, Orientalism, and The Arab Mind
- The collapsing American middle class
- Guestblogger: Kathy G.
- Videoconference bleg
- The Vidal Sassoon Treatment.
- Holiday from Sanity
- Waiting for Boris
- Lane Kenworthy Profiled
- Jerry Cohen valedictory lecture
- Northwestern jettisons Wright
- Data and anecdotes
April 2008
- All Out For May Day!
- Is there a general skill of “management”?
- Charles Tilly
- Oil on troubled waters
- More Kindle & etc.
- Terminating Parental Rights
- Videoseminar: report from the bleeding edge
- Not really an issue of academic freedom
- War crimes questions
- Puzzling about Hobbes and obligation
- Beyond the area of his expertise
- Final Trumpet
- Maybe Baby
- Because we like you.
- Godwin this.
- Friday Economics 101 quiz time!
- Alan Keyes joins the CP
- A Tale of Two Formbys
- I never feel like somebody’s watching me.
- Part-time work in academia
- The flame of nationalism
- Someone is WRONG on the Internet (but for the next few weeks I don’t care)
- Momentum and legitimacy
- The Deficit Model of Poverty (and NCLB).
- Education Optimists
- Airmiles?
- “Let it rip.”
- Disability and Democracy
- Academic Freedom: Some Resources
- Academic Freedom: Some Propositions
- Can anyone play this game?
- Guess who comes last?
- I Read Richie Rich Billions, B%&#$es
- Eric Rauchway
- How Much Now?
- Watch this space: Robert Capa
- Tilly wins Hirschman
- The ABC Murders
- 1-2-3-4-1-2-no-more!
- Food
- Wingnut Talking Point Bingo
- Poped
- La-de-ah!
- Crooked Timber dining notes (MCXVIII) — Squirrel
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Look, and be Amazed
- The Last Days of Kenneth Williams and the SWP
- Two Colberts
- It was a good grouplet as they go, and as grouplets go, it went
- Biffos and Buffalos
- Evaluating NCLB (or any other reform for that matter)
- The sustainability of improving living standards
- Tom Lehrer is 80
- I would like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and Jesus.
- Faint praise and damnations
- Stabs in the dark
- Linkage
- The death of Flickr?
- Stupid, stupid upgrade creatures
- A Country Life
- Iraqi interpreters coming to Australia
- Psychology vs Organizations in Organ Procurement
- Gratuitous Sesame Street
- Street politics
- Olympic politics
- What to Buy at the Airport: Something that makes a loud ringing noise
- What to buy at the airport
- Congrats to this person
- Citing blogs
- Peace is for losers part, 2
- The one per cent doctrine
- Annals of Improbable Research
- What to do with Yoo
- Mlk
- Fiveargh
- Reduce and reuse before you offset
- “Objectives Based Regulation:” buzzword du jour?
- Duties of justice
- Disqualifications
- Bertie finally bows out
- Agency
- The hobgoblin of little minds
- Piecework, Political Economy and the Internet
- Cohen and Lindsey on Bloggingheads
- Fafblog!
- So here we are
March 2008
- Riddles Wrapped in Mysteries Inside Enigmas
- CT Guestblogger: Bruce Carruthers
- Peace offers are for losers
- How many Crooked Timberites does it take to change an energy saving lightbulb?
- Verbing the adjectivised abstraction
- Bad news from Basra
- Motoparrot
- Forced to fight renegades
- They know they were right
- For your Paranoia vs Incompetence Files
- Rhineland Capitalism 1, Liberal Market Capitalism 0
- Big battle for Basra?
- Of course, one can’t be certain but …
- The perquisites of office
- Rawls Bleg
- Media Blitz
- Kindled?
- If Wright is wrong, then wrong is right: the Victor Davis Hanson guide to moral absolutes
- Thank you Mr Mankiw
- Watchlists, human rights, and judicial politics
- Belgium no longer exists
- The early days of a better nation
- The Brick Moon
- Bigdog
- An outing for trolls and sockpuppeteers
- Trageghiaturi
- The Huge Hunter or, The Steam Man of the Prairies
- White knights
- Girls and money
- A Primer on Irish Culture
- Humble pie
- The one-hoss shay
- Are you smart enough to enjoy the Economist?
- Recipe Corner: Bakewell Tart
- Standing up for photographers’ rights
- In-Jokes
- Academic journals: thinking from the ‘South’
- Incentives for reviewing
- Cheese photos, speedcabling, laptops and whatnot
- Dead heats and democracy
- Horse Races and Odds
- Free everything??
- Free Public Choice
- US election horse race
- More Sin
- On the Diminished Disgrace of Whores and Their Children in Our Day
- Respecting Religious Believers
- Marriage by proxy
- Rebecca Solnit on culture wars and environmentalism
- In the EEA, Tactical Nuclear Weapons Were Highly Fitness-Enhancing
- Spitzer’s End
- Timber, Bookshelves, World Domination, Etc.
- The best of all games?
- “a disgracefully misleading, cowardly, manipulative and politically irresponsible programme”
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Taxes and the little people
- Mole as Painter/Knowledge Rules
- The department of “huh”? is the only growth industry round here
- Department of huh?
- International women’s day
- Russell Arben Fox on state-building, democracy and ethnicity
- But for the grace of God &c.
- Don’t worry, you don’t have to think all that carefully in order to vote
- Saluting the flag
- No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service
- The Republican War on Science: Tierney and Bethell
- Vote, if you want to, and are willing to think carefully about it.
- Aspirational taste
- White
- Principles (and Practices) of Economics
- Introducing the BBPI
- Gitmo and Gulag
- Deliberation vs. participation in blogs
- Playing Against Type is a Market Niche
- A lot or a little, part 2
February 2008
- Kosovo and the dark side of democracy
- Game over?
- One Percent of All American Adults are Incarcerated
- Double movements
- Stiglitz on the (financial) cost of Iraq
- Mankiw’s 10 principles of economics
- Cute
- William F. Buckley has died
- The cossacks work for the czar, but nothing like quickly or efficiently enough
- The Kosovo (non-)precedent
- Hamlet without the Prince
- Teh awesome
- Don’t vote (without thinking)
- Explaining Google’s popularity
- What I didn’t find on Wikipedia today.
- Best served cold
- Targeted Marketing
- What I found on Wikipedia today
- Stem Cell Century
- McMuddled
- What Value are Endorsements?
- Fo Shizzle’ My Nietsizzle On Morality
- The price of Starbucks
- What have the Romans ever done for us?*
- The Future of Reputation
- Ornamentation Recapitulates Phylogenet – oh ferget it
- Political correctness was invented precisely to prevent the mainstream liberal media from persuing [sic] the questions which might arise about how Senator Obama’s mother, from Kansas, came to marry an African graduate student
- Say what you will about Stalin … he was no Babbitt.
- Castro retires
- Having your cake, eating it, and securitizing it as an asset while you’re at it
- Languages
- Sockpuppets on Neoliberal Society Redux
- Sock Puppets on Neoliberal Society
- Here comes the big one
- Sorry 2
- Revealed preferences
- Think Tank Sociology
- Another reason to use R
- Magic Eight Ball of the Internets
- Will-You-Condemn-athon
- Who are the members of the US foreign policy community?
- China can’t make it rain
- LOLBAMA
- William and Mary firing
- We were never this harsh, even with Davids Bernstein and Kane
- I see your Super Osama Kulfa Balls and raise you by two unfortunately named German choko-treats
- Educational Equality and Educational Adequacy
- Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted ….
- How much should we referee?
- Appropriately Located
- Will no-one rid me….
- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
- Tom Lantos dies at 80
- Grab the nearest book
- Continuity and Change in English Culture
- Quick links
- Shades of Gray
- Gentlemen don’t bug their MPs’ conversations
- I think we have a winner
- Monkey Cage
- Rawls and ‘Liberalism’
- Tentacle-porn
- Maternity nurses in the UK?
- Open election thread
- Seeing Like “Seeing Like a State”
- Delivering people to the labour market
- On Certainty and Illegal Substitutions
- Skibbereen Eagle how are ya
- Going viral
- Frozen Grand Central Station
- Photos as notes
- Kucinichmemtum
- Health Insurance Mandates
- Liberal Senators
January 2008
- Bill and Nazarbayev
- The monkey and the organgrinder
- Kidney Theft in India
- Other places
- “Atlas Shrugged” Kicks the Ass of “Fight Club”
- Born under a full moon
- A million foreclosures
- Prediction Markets In Republican Spin
- Blogs and partisanship in the US
- Suharto is dead
- Six Nations 2008
- By popular request
- Art through geek-colored glasses
- Veil of ignorance
- Look and Learn
- Of Development and Debt
- We have seen the enemy and it isn’t us
- Liberal Fascism: Wings Over the World Edition
- National Histories
- When hypotheticals attack
- Liberte, Suburbie, Fraternite!
- Cracks in the foundations
- Abstraction and the Details
- I only have trouble when one’s Irish and the other’s a professor
- Class, Schools, and Research Literacy
- Limousine Libertarians
- Eminently fair and gracious and typically thoughtful
- If you’re looking for a laugh (or a cry)
- A Goldberg conjecture
- HoS and the WAGs
- Bobby Fischer
- Robust Action in the Topkapi Palace
- Good Sense
- Seldon on Private Schools
- Six degrees of Louis Farrakhan
- Opt-Out Organ Donation in the U.K.?
- Go Tell It On the Mountain
- Dockers and Detectives
- Dave Cousins and Educational Equality
- Mea culpa! Mea maxima ahhhstickitupyerjacksie …
- Quelle Horreur
- Post-Invasion Deaths in Iraq
- The impact of political philosophers
- USA Electoral Compass
- Johnson on bipartisanship, bastardry, and democratic theory
- Indoctrination
- Information Society
- Huckabee, Romney and Catholics
- Flashman
- No one seems to like the idea of Hillary as VP. What about Cheney?
- Slow Parade
- Hillary For VP?
- Then and now
- Huckmentum
- Closing the books
- Brooks v. Tomasky
- Sharpen your vocabulary for a good cause
- 2 weeks of birthleave for fathers
- G.A. Cohen Interview
- Election Markets
- “Heil Myself!” (and other rude Goldberg devices)
- Goodbye to the Port and Brandy
- Happy New Year