Dan Drezner and Henry Farrell’s new paper on political blogging looks apt to be interesting reading; thoughts (if I have any) when I’m finished with it.

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You got your Homestar Runner in my They Might be Giants video!  You got your They Might be Giants in my Homestar Runner short!  Hey, you’re both right!

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So my roommate Tim Lee and I are looking for someone to take the newly-vacant third bedroom in our house, conveniently located at the intersection of Hipster and Yuppie in D.C.’s rapidly gentrifying U-Street neighborhood.  Rent’s $720 (before utilities), and I’ll post pictures of the room and the rest of our stylish abode later.  We’ve […]

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There’s a badly confused piece by Edward Feser over at TechCentralStation.  It’s basically an attack on the idea that libertarianism (better than egalitarian liberalism) captures well the ideal of liberal neutrality.  I’m not up to cataloging all of the ways it goes off the rails, but for starters… Feser aims the non-neutrality critique at folks […]

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Normally, I share the bloggers’ impatience with the occasional op-ed squib by a professional journalist staring down his nose at we mere online diarists.  But this LA Times piece actually makes an important point: Blogging isn’t journalism, nor should it really be judged by journalism’s standards.  I did a panel on blogging a couple weeks back […]

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Well I’ll be damnedâ??Will Wilkinson‘s posting regularly again (a trick I’m hoping to emulate).

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This one’s for Dad: Neal Whitman asks how Jeopardy would look if the show took its answer-in-the-form-of-a-question gimmick seriously.  Incidentally, I see Dana Stevens at Slate shared my high school habit of squaring off against the paterfamilias, though on reflection we really thought of it more like team play.  And and anyone puzzled by the headline […]

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I interviewed Martha Nussbaum for our July issue, and a longer version of the short bit that appeared in print is now online.

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Another linguistic question I’ve been running through my mind.  The word “hang” seems unusual in that its past tense in common usage is different depending on which meaning one intends—the method of execution or the more general act of suspending something in the air.  So I hung the photo on my wall, but we hanged […]

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Well, the task of calling periodic Blogoramas seems to have devolved upon me, and my network of spies indicates that folk are about ready for another one. So let’s say two weeks from todayâ??Thursday, July 29â??at that bastion of dive-swank, Rendezvous Lounge on 18th Street and Kalorama. Let’s say 7:30. In the interests of pulling […]

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