Cleaning out some old bookmarks and closing some old tabs. Read more
Cleaning out some old bookmarks and closing some old tabs. Read more
"Americans do not just disagree with each other, they live in different realities," Peter Baker says. Ask Herman Cain how that worked out for him. Read more
Please listen to Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Alexei Navalny, Jonathan Blitzer, Scott Lemieux, and Czeslaw Milosz. Read more
They believe the road to Hell is paved not with good intentions, but with good works. Read more
if you're feeling fearful, or pessimistic, or unable to speak of hope without sounding scornfully sarcastic just now, then you might need to read the whole thing. Read more
Pneumatic tubes and other cool things. Read more
"Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." Read more
Ethnic nationalism -- the "long-taboo brand of nationalist and anti-immigrant politics" -- is always a disastrous failure. Ethnic nationalists have never been the Good Guys. Or even the smart guys. Read more
"This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights." Read more
Radio preachers have been prophesying the Rapture for more than a century. What if, 100 light years away, those signals are heard by "intellects vast cool and unsympathetic, regarding this earth with envious eyes"? Read more
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