Preferential Interests

I saw some pictures the other day of some Sikhs wearing turbans in the U.S. Army and it made me a little proud.  America has done a decent...

Now that it's over (and it is over), here's what are some lessons learned from the GOP nomination fight in 2012: 1. The Party Deci...

Gun control is the most obvious failure of the state in modern America, right? From the 1960s to the 1990s, America, especially in its citie...

I just finished Part 1 of Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order . First off, I like the book. He’s an evolutionist, and a Hobbesia...

So I grew up with a gal named Kelly and I have a friend named Kelly and I was thinking about what would happen to various Kellys. My friend...

And the question was asked: "My skills are totally lacking in the tofu dept. I've only used soft stuff in miso soup. What do you re...

I’ve mentioned this to several people already, so I thought I’d take the time to explain myself online. Basically, the prevailing “Democrati...

When a person suffers some sort of total and permanent brain damage, a la Terri Schiavo , people divide up into familiar pro-life/pro-choice...

This question seems to matter to a lot of people, but I can't really see why it does. That's not true. I know why it matters to so...

These results : The authors failed to find that racial tolerance arises from humanitarian values, consistent with the idea that religious hu...

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This graph , and others like it, warm the cockles of my atheist heart. The religion of "None" is up to 12%. And it's nice to ...

Seeing Michael Steele out everywhere, vying to be the face of the Republican Party is just plain weird. Before Howard Dean, how many nation...

Via Kottke comes this list of books people lie about having read : 1. 1984 by George Orwell (42%) 2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (31%) 3. ...