Ackerman clearly gets at least partial credit for the resignation of the State Department Inspector General, having published this damning interview.

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If you’re not getting enough hot Sanchez action here, I’m still blogging occasionally (and anonymously) at The Economist‘s Democracy in America.

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Back when I interviewed the (now late) philosopher Robert Nozick about his final book Invariances, I asked him about a phrase in the book that had puzzled me: He had referred to superstring theory as an interesting branch of metaphysics. He replied: Well, I think that science, as it probes realms that aren’t just at […]

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Via Sullivan, it says something about contemporary politics that it’s sort of astonishing to hear a Republican candidate, Ron Paul, say something so mild and reasonable on the subject: We live in times of great uncertainty when men of faith must stand up for American values and traditions before they are washed away in a […]

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Glenn Reynolds: WINNING IN IRAQ: T.M. Lutas is saying “I told you so.” UPDATE: And Lutas isn’t the only one gloating. I think it’s okay to gloat about things that are good for America. I know it’s tough to grok, but for some of us, the War in Iraq is not primarily a big game […]

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I… I don’t know how to say this, but… I think I just enjoyed and agreed with a Thomas Friedman column.

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From The Weekly Standard, offered without comment: Many in the mainstream press have been willing to cite this latest NIE unquestioningly. Perhaps they should start asking some pointed questions. (Don’t hold your breath.)

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Andrew Sullivan notices a moment I’d missed in the recent Republican debate, in which Mike Huckabee is asked to clarify his views on evolution: At the first debate, he’d been one of three candidates to indicate he disbelieved in the theory. Huckabee rather unconvincingly tries to reframe his original response as really being about whether […]

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Ezra and Ygz are right, of course, that a “nanny state” isn’t all that offensive when the people being nannied are kids. There’s such a thing as overprotecting even children, but obviously when kids are in public schools, “the government” at some level is going to decide what food options are available to those kids, […]

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Over the weekend, many pixels were expended on W. Thomas Smith’s sloppy reporting from Lebanon for National Review. Most of the responses have focused on Smith’s apparent tendency to pass on unconfirmed, dubious reports from parties with an interest in shaping media perception, while giving the false impression they were based on his own observations. […]

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