Month: January 2013

I would never have noticed the Life of Julia if I hadn’t seen conservatives bashing it. And I would have already forgotten about it if conservatives were willing to let it go and stop mentioning it in derisive tones. I...

Imagine that it is June 1964 and Congress is getting set to vote on the Civil Rights Act. What do you think will happen if the New York Times sends a reporter to Greenville, South Carolina to gauge the mood of public opinion?...

You knew that at one point David Brooks would suffer enough cognitive dissonance to lead him to make a permanent break with the Republican Party. That day has not yet come. Instead, because his paycheck depends on his...

. State Department announced office to close Guantánamo Bay will be shuttered Our founders established a country based on the rule of law, not the convenience of either prisoners or the government. Whether we look at Magna...

A lot of people in the wake of the Newtown massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School have proposed various and often contradictory solutions to preventing gun violence. On the extremes, some have called for the repeal of the...