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March Madness

Tonight the University of North Carolina will square off against Michigan State in the men's NCAA Division I basketball championship. This game is the...

The Incentives of Proposing Tax Cuts for the Very Rich

Reading today's New York Times editorial on the Lincoln-Kyl proposal to cut estate taxes to the tune of $250 billion, I wondered about what...

The Supreme Court as Movie Reviewer?

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the interesting, vexing, and somewhat hilarious case of Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission. The...

D.C. v. Heller and "Liberal Originalism"

In last summer's issue, I predicted that the seemingly momentous gun-control case of D.C. v. Heller might turn out to be not such a...

George W. Bush, Secret Liberal

"I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying...

Argument by Star Wars

As a child, I absolutely loved science fiction.  Which is why I think it's so kind of neat that we can now have robots...

Agreeing to Disagree

I loved this post by Ross Douthat, the Atlantic blogger (and future New York Times token conservative columnist!) and wanted to highlight it.  In...

Nuclear Instability Watch

So it seems matters are coming to a head in Pakistan.  Today, anti-government protests in Lahore were confronted by riot police.  After violent confrontations,...

Free Riding

The US is hardly the only First World nation which regards the actual text of its Constitution as a bit of an inconvenience.  Japan...

Budget Hijinks

At this point, the only force that continues to pose an effective threat to a progressive agenda is the Democratic Party.  Not the party...