The weekend wouldn’t be complete without the requisite spin by the Corner, where Andrew Stuttaford writes that it’s “beyond parody” for (feel the sneer) “gender studies” types to express concern over gender stereotypes in fairy tales. Now, maybe NYU wrecked my brain or something, but is it really entirely nuts to suggest that parents might […]

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As a longtime vegetarian, I miss out on the Thanksgiving holiday’s traditional poultry-consumption. And as a lifelong secularist, I don’t have any deity to shower with praise for the good care (s)he’s taken of me over the last year. But there is something to be said for reminding yourself how good you have it. This […]

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Of course, some of you have probably already concluded that I should never have children, and my resolve to name any firstborn daughter “Antigone” would probably make it tough to find a willing collaborator if I were so inclined… but it’s actually something else altogether that prompts that headline. At the end of a post […]

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Glenn Reynolds believes it was “simplistic” of me to cast “as a simple freedom of the press issue” the decision to shut down the Iraq bureau of the al-Arabiya news agency after they aired a tape purportedly from Saddam Hussein in which (surprise, surprise) he calls for attacks on Americans and their allies. Now, my […]

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As the “Conservative Crack Up” progresses, a post by Jonah Goldberg revisits the custodial battle over Friedrich Hayek in the context of the gay marriage debate. First, some nitpicky observations. Jonah writes: Yes he rejected the label “conservative,” but he just as explicitly rejected the label “libertarian.” The conservatives he disagreed with were of the […]

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Glen has an interesting post examining the most recent Matrix flick in light of Robert Nozick’s famous “experience machine” argument. While I do think Nozick’s argument is a powerful intuition pump (I use the phrase in a non-pejorative sense) exposing one problem with utilitarianism, I have never held that there’s anything necessarily irrational about hooking […]

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I’ve got a web piece called Smokonomics elaborating on a post below. If you live in D.C., sign up to speak at the December 3 public hearing to oppose the proposed smoking ban.

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