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Policy, not timing, is the issue
I don’t like posting on Israel-Palestine because I don’t really have a dog in that fight and I think that while it is an important global issue, its importance is often overemphasized by bloggers,...
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Aliens: outsourced
I don’t have to write my semi-weekly David Brooks post today, because these two did such a good job of it already. Just so you know, David Brooks remains an alien. Filed under: domestic policy, Health...
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Shifting definitions of ‘liberal’
Ross Douthat is the New York Times’ wunderkind conservative pundit. Like anyone with a forced, public writing schedule, he writes some very smart things, but then he goes and writes some not-so-smart...
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Say what, Tom Friedman?
I don’t know why Tom Friedman is still a prominent public ‘intellectual’. The man has a really tough time coming up with an argument that doesn’t assume, as the old yarn goes, that the plural of story...
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JSC’s brush with blogging fame
Our faithful readers will be happy to know that when there’s not a smorgasbord of vague topics engaging our talents of producing excessive word counts, we at JSC sometimes spend our time hobnobbing...
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The internet and privacy: stop taking the easy way out
[by JSC5] [Update: Thanks to Jonathan Bernstein for linking to this on his site and giving us our biggest readership day since we started. For all of you new-comers, if you like what you see, please...
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State-owned enterprises
[by JSC5] A good illustration of the incoherence of our discourse about government-owned enterprises, from today’s NYT: Neil M. Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief...
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What is an objective journalist?
[by JSC7] As usual, unfashionably late to the party on the whole Dave Weigel “What happens on the mailing list stays in the mailing list” fiasco, but watching it play out has been a doozey. Here’s JSC5...
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A note to everyone who looks like the people from the bar last night: you’re...
[by JSC5] If you were looking for a concrete example of what I was talking about in my previous post on how terribly puerile our privacy culture is these days, then look no further.* The...
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The kids aren’t all right: plagiarism(!) edition
[by JSC5] Another day, another curmudgeonly story about “kids these days”. Today’s complaint comes from the New York Times, which goes out of its way to blame plagiarism among college students on...
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