I recommend Br. Brafford’s post on non-foundationalism for the layman, but I find his treatment of Thomas Kuhn quite unfair: I’m reading Thomas Kuhn’s controversial classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which Kuhn put...
“I’d rather dip my jewels in honey and go on a bear watch.” –Shawn Spencer, Psych Season 4 Episode 15 in response to Gus asking him whether he would like to watch his dad...
As the League’s resident ordained clergyman to be, I read with piqued interest Br. Jason’s take on Ross Douthat’s take on the American take on contemporary religious mysticism. Jason quotes this passage from Baba...
Stephen Lee Myers in the New York Times: Defying a sustained barrage of mortars and rockets in Baghdad and other cities, Iraqis went to the polls in strength on Sunday to choose a new...
Br. Erik (as the League’s Arizonan) is probably in a better position to assess this, but why is J.D. Hayworth running an ad with John McCain painted in Avatar-war paint? 1. McCain is remembered...
I see Br. Matthew has beaten me to the punch* on this one, but Mitt Romney is not dropping foreign policy science in his new book. From Time’s Alex Altman: It’s tempting to dismiss the section...
Richard Grenell takes to the e-pages of HuffingtonPost to say the following: One year later Obama has single-handedly allowed the Iranians more than a year of unfettered progress toward a nuclear weapon with less...
Scott recently raised some skepticism about the potential impact of the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former operational commander of the Afghan Taliban. Today word is out that another high ranking Afghan Taliban...
What must it be like to be Rick Santorum…in what universe does this guy think he can be president (when he got smoked in a Senatorial race in Pennsylvania)?
As The League of Ordinary Gentlemen’s 2010 Winter Olympics Special Correspondent, some early observations: 1. It’s pretty surreal to live in a city that is hosting the “Winter” Olympics when I was outside for...
h/t to my boy Drew Raley for dropping this knowledge on me.
US Marines along with Afghan forces have begun what is to date the largest offensive since the initial phase of the Afghanistan war. They are entering the town of Marjah, a Taliban stronghold in...
Dani Rodrik on the Chinese trade imbalance vice grip: So we are left, it seems, with two equally unappetizing options. China can maintain its currency practices, but at the risk of large global macroeconomic...
Not much to add to this one, except to say that it gives us an amazing window into the paradoxes of a country facing the pressures of globalization and traditional culture (what used to...
Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice, in a longish (and at points very interesting) post making a number of different comparisons, has this to say about Ross Douthat: But Ross Douthat is nowhere so obvious....
With today’s launch of the Apple iPad, this old MadTV sketch takes on a new meaning. Warning: NSFW
The interspheres have been aglow with the leaking of a planned spending freeze proposal by the Obama Administration. A run down of various opinions can be found in Scott’s post. Scott writes: This is politics...
From Simon Shuster, reporting for Time: Then, on Jan. 19, three weeks into the dispute, Kazakhstan stepped in with a game-changing offer. It said that if Russia refuses to provide oil to the Belarussian...
From Evgeny Morozov (at Foreign Policy), commenting on Sec. Clinton’s recent speech on the Internets. Dude hits it out the park. Money quote:
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, writing in Foreign Policy: In this, Obama was following two decades of magical thinking among both greens and liberal Democrats about energy technology. In this view, energy efficiency pays...
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