I’ll be guesting over at The Economist‘s politics blog, Democracy in America this week, so check there if posting is light here. I’ve been requested to refrain from characterizing parties with whom I may disagree as “douchebags,” which could make it difficult to discuss American politics, but I’ll do my best. Possibly it’s just that […]

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Well, the primary function of this for me was to confirm that I’ve almost entirely lost the debate chops I spend four years building up at NYU, but you can check out Ezra Klein & me on a new episode of BloggingHeads TV discussing American individualism, cost-sharing in healthcare, TSA watchlists, trade & IP, and […]

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My January Reason cover story, “The Pinpoint Search,” is now online.

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I’ve got a cover story on search technologies out in the new issue of Reason currently out on newsstands. You can pick up a hard copy, get a digital subscription, or wait a month or so for it to be available free online. But really, do you want to be that far behind the curve?

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I’ve got a short piece up at Campus Progress warning Dems away from “moderation” on reproductive rights. One argument that didn’t make it into the final draft for space reasons, but which I’m curious to bounce off the blogsphere, is that accepting the fetuses-are-persons line (even if you think maternal rights to bodily control trump […]

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I’ve got a short piece up at The American Prospect‘s website today: A look into the mind of George Bush as he grapples with a classic of existentialism.

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Earlier this week, I recorded an episode of Blogging Heads TV with my friend and fellow pale-as-hell-political-writer-with-a-Hispanic-last-name, Matt Yglesias. (In keeping with whatever perverse principle required the first couple generations of ska bands to include some pun involving “ska” in their names, they’re calling these “diavlogs.”) Alas, our discussion was aborted due to technical difficulties […]

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I’ve got a review essay in the most recent issue of Reason, “Marital Mythology,” which takes a look at both the history and contemporary problems of marriage through the lens of two books: Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage, a History and Promises I Can Keep by sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas. That piece prompted a longish […]

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I just recorded an interview for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation program Counterpoint, talking about some of the issues raised in my article “A Concord of Visions” from February. You’ll be able to listen online starting sometime Monday. The program is now archived online in MP3 and RealAudio formats.

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I had a piece up at Reason this weekend, “Driving Miss Jihadi,” about the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case.

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