From my Crescat 20 Questions just before the new year: 14: What publication do you most wish would start a blog? My first instinct is to say the Economist, but I don’t know whether their comparative advantage is something that would translate well to the blog form. Maybe The Atlantic Monthly? Actually, what I’d really […]

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Jim Henley mentions something that’s long bugged me. Not only do print newspapers and magazines typically fail to provide you with URLs to studies and websites they reference (excusable only because sometimes those are long and ungainly, easier to Google than type in) but the online versions of those articles are almost invariably lacking hyperlinks. […]

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Just a quick note that the new Belle and Sebastian album, Dear Catastrophe Waitress is really, really good. I picked it up a few weeks ago but had only listened to it a couple of times. Up there with If You’re Feeling Sinister.

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So the catalyst for this is a Corner post from Tim Graham: Howard Dean decides that his decision to back gay “civil unions” was actually a faith-based move. “The overwhelming evidence is that there is very significant, substantial genetic component to it…From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, […]

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On the Reason website today, I’ve got a look at religion and politics: “Gott Mit Uns.” And in the January issue, now online, there’s “Self Delusions,” my review of Owen Flanagan’s The Problem of the Soul

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…and I don’t feel any different. The clanking of crystal, alas, comes from my car window being smashed during the night as I move into new digs for a new year—a cute house over by the U Street corridor that I’m sharing with two other libertarian geeks. Despite my irritation at having to replace the […]

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