Month: January 2015

Of the many pathologies infecting the modern Republican party and conservatism generally is rosy thinking and a complete lack of foresight. The list is long: no one could have predicted that arming and training people like Osama...

Collectively, we’re bored, which is why everyone and his brother is weighing in on Jonathan Chait’s new piece on political correctness. Here, for example, is Jia Tolentino writing at Jezebel: It is surely not lost on...

Why did Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant allow a sweetheart interview to accused sex offender Rabbi Eliezer Berland on the moment of a court’s decision on extradiction to Israel? Rabbi who fled Israel on sex crimes charges...

I had already planned to write a little bit about Andrew Cuomo, who has been reliably reported to be a major dickhead (via Atrios, check out how Cuomo fucked New York City by shutting down the subway yesterday). We all know how...

We’re doomed.