Saturday, August 19, 2006
The Ultimate Counterfactual (05:46 PM) - The exercise strikes me as without purpose, but New York Magazine has commissioned a dozen commentators to dwell on what things might be like if the September 11 attacks had never occured….
If You Are Not Criticized, You May Not Be Doing Much (11:32 AM) - I think it was Donald Rumsfeld who coined that glorious little truth. And here is a variation on the theme. The Wall Street Journal in weekend editions uncovers a widespread and growing practice in the textbook publishing industry of using…
A Brief History of Speech (10:35 AM) - Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Todd Zywicki takes readers on a tour of Dartmouth’s highs and lows on the issue of freedom of speech. A selection from the very eloquent post:Things have not always been thus at Dartmouth. Under the…
The Honor of Killing (09:38 AM) - In yesterday’s story, “Two charged with honour killing,” the Guardian shows what fundamentalist Islamism and its intolerance truly mean:Italian police were searching yesterday for a man suspected of involvement in the killing of a Pakistani woman after her father and…