The law wants things to be completely legal or completely illegal while morality is rarely so black and white. Continue reading →

“The United States is a country that takes human rights seriously. We do not torture. It’s against our laws and against our values. And we expect all those who serve America to conduct themselves accordingly, and we enforce those rules…America … Continue reading →

I recently finished Michael Shermer’s Science of Good and Evil and reviewed it on Facebook. I have been enjoying Michael Shermer’s blog and writings in Skeptic magazine for a while now. His interviews with creationists are particularly spectactular. This book? … Continue reading →

I have been keeping bookmarks of the many, many blogs about the torture memos over the last few days meaning to summarize them but, ultimately, I decided the whole thing was too depressing and I let the whole sordid business … Continue reading →

Richard Armitage on the Bush administration’s decision to depart from the Geneva Conventions.

Like Jane Galt, I don’t have an opinion on gay marriage and – also like Jane – I find many of the arguments, both for and against, unconvincing. But Jane makes a good argument for the stability of institutions – … Continue reading →

The thing that most astounds me about the strip-search case currently before the supreme court An assistant principal, enforcing the school’s antidrug policies, suspected her of having brought prescription-strength ibuprofen pills to school. One of the pills is as strong … Continue reading →

At last, there is a reason to read Rolling Stone. As complex as all the finances are, the politics aren’t hard to follow. By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too … Continue reading →

I just watched the Cramer interview on The Daily Show. Awesome. Of the many, many blogs about the show, the most astute is Glen Greenwald’s in Salon who draws the broader picture – the only journalism happening on TV is … Continue reading →