Time to finally open a Cafepress account… Context here.

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When Jimmy Carter is bagging on your foreign policy skillz, you know you’ve got problems.

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Just as a sort of afterthought to the vlog below, have you ever noticed that there’s a radical disconnect, according to the mainstream hawk narrative, between how we react to attacks, and how our opponents are imagined to react? If someone attempts to attack or intimidate us, as we all know, this invariably backfires, for […]

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She’s having server trouble, so you can temporarily find her at http://janegalt.wordpress.com/

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Yet one more object lesson in the perils of science writers mucking about in philosophy is this bizarre, muddled article about studies identifying the “spark of free will” in… fruit flies. This seemed implausible for a variety of reasons, and no less so upon closer reading. Scientists wanted to see how flies would respond to […]

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Ezra is shamefaced that the United States, alone in the industrialized world, has no legally mandated minimum vacation time or paid holidays. Which is why, as we all know, such things are wholly unknown to American workers.

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So, Chris Hitchens was just on Hannity and Colmes debating the legacy of Jerry Falwell with Ralph Reed and the hosts. Predictably, Reed and (especially) Hannity were not so much concerned with the substance of Hitchens’ scathing attack on the late rev than with its impropriety, its insensitivity to Falwell’s family and loved ones, and […]

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I’d meant to say something earlier about this odd article in the weekend’s New York Times about how some people generally supportive of abortion rights are voicing discomfort about the combination of abortion with genetic testing as a mechanism of filtering out fetuses with serious congenital defects or disabilities. But the article is awfully vague […]

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Given the amount of abuse that’s already been piled on Christina Hoff Summers’ Weekly Standard cover story on “ The Subjection of Islamic Women: And the fecklessness of American feminism.,” I’m sure someone has already done this. But since AEI conveniently lists scholar publications, I figured I’d go check out the many pieces Summers herself […]

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