I’m afraid of people who like Blogwatch in the Rye;

Yeah, I like it too,

But someone tell me why…

(Actually I really hated Catcher in the Rye the only time I read it, but maybe that’s because my school made us read it in, I think, junior high. This cannot be the best way to read the book.)

Daniel Drezner: American tariffs and subsidies throw American candymakers out of work. Interesting stuff in comments, too. Oxblog explains why this post is important: It’s easier to see the concentrated costs of free trade than the diffused benefits.

More Drezner can be found at AndrewSullivan.com, where DD is guest-blogging.

Hit & Run: Families Against Mandatory Minimums on TV! Yay!

Kesher Talk: Big list of Jewblogs. (BlogJews?) Rabbis, rebels, Reformers, and assorted whatnot.

Krubner: “This is a project that I’ve been meaning to get to for over a year: going over the work of Christopher Hill on this weblog, and in particular his book The World Turned Upside Down. For the next 2 weeks, with a few exceptions, posts will be about the English Revolution of the 1640s and 50s and also, in particular, the clash that arose between what might be called ‘bourgeois’ Protestantism, and the much more radical kind of Protestantism that flourished during the revolution.

“Rarely has any nation gone through as much spiritual turmoil as England did from 1646 to 1653. It interests me that things like atheism can become a mass event, like a mass hysteria, enveloping large chunks of the public for a year or two, before the mood passes.

“It interests me more that much of a nation might suddenly realize that they can be saved, that Jesus, perhaps, died for them. …”

Punishment Theory: Very interesting debate thread about “faith-based prisons.” Via Los Volokh.

GoogleAlert: Tells you when something new comes up when someone Googles your name. Indirectly via the Invisible Adjunct.

The PoMo English Title Generator. Instant hilarity.