The Stopped Clock

Via Charles Pierce , I found Jonah Goldberg's unimpressive defense of the use of torture. Goldberg opens, For a long time I resisted th...

An argument I've heard any number of times, in which I find little merit, goes like this : Some, like U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.),...

With the Republicans making noise about withholding funding from DHS, a rather irresponsible form of brinksmanship, The Guardian describes...

David Brooks informs us, But the other reason that the civil-rights era comparisons [to Ferguson] were inapt is because the nature of racis...

A few weeks ago I read an article in which a journalist was questioning why rape criticisms against Bill Cosby didn't get much media at...

I've commented in the past about accusations of hypocrisy, and how they are often misplaced. It's not hypocritical for Warren Buffe...

On the editorial pages of a newspaper that can scarcely pass up an opportunity to beat the drums for war , Ruth Marcus has taken up the hor...

Daniel Larison is writing about one of his pet peeves: Virginia Sen. Tim] Kaine’s point [on Congressional abdication and presidential overr...

Poor Ross Douthat is in a tizzy over the possibility that President Obama may act through executive order, to address some of the immigrati...

A common refrain about Islamic extremists is that not enough ordinary Muslims speak out against it. To me, this raises three essential ques...