I’ll say up front that I don’t know the answer. Everything that’s been tried up till now has real problems, so I’d like to throw [...]

Sometimes I think I may have something to contribute to #OccupyWallStreet. Sometimes I don’t know. The only people who would know are you, if you’ve [...]

Now comes the hard part. Mohammed El-Baradei talked about the “joy and happiness of every Egyptian at the restoration of our humanity and our freedom.” [...]

(The title is inspired by Historiann’s excellent post. Also a note: unlike most of the things I blog about, teaching is what I’ve done professionally [...]

(The title is inspired by Historiann’s excellent post. Also a note: unlike most of the things I blog about, teaching is what I’ve done professionally [...]

(The title is inspired by Historiann’s excellent post. Also a note: unlike most of the things I blog about, teaching is what I’ve done professionally [...]

We’re on a collision course with technology. Free speech is being killed in order to save it. Something is always boiling up that involves free [...]

You’ve all heard by now that Google and Verizon will take care of it. They will come to an agreement between them that will ensure [...]

Let me just get this straight. On one side: a few small people who have killed nobody but may have endangered some in the interests [...]

Honestly, I know enough biology to know that it can’t be. It just can’t. And yet how else to explain the sudden ignorance of a [...]

I’ve been thinking about the failures of government recently (1, 2), and it turns out (h/t dakinikat) I’m in good company. Sachs points out that [...]

Being forced to die against my will would be terrifying. And I, personally, wouldn’t care whether the death panels making that decision were staffed by [...]

Medicine and the so-called free market are incompatible in important ways. An outstanding article in the recent New Yorker by Atul Gawande makes that point [...]

This has been brought on by a comment thread at Reclusive Leftist. The post was about feminism, but the thread kept veering off into abortion. [...]

This is all you need. Shove this in anyone’s face who starts saying, “But, but, but . . . the guvvamint!” From a comment by [...]

This has been hard for me to write. It’s part of the reason I haven’t wanted to write anything for a while. I didn’t think [...]