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Jerry Coyne, writing in The New Republic, inadvertently summarizes what I consider the ur-feature of all writing on "trigger warnings...

I always try to give credit where it's due, and I'll thus give Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) credit for a stronger-than-expected statemen...

Believe it or not, I've never been an anti-gun zealot. I've fired a gun before, once, at camp (it had a shooting range) -- it didn...

Certainly, there's no shortage of news to be written on. But I've just begin an intensive 8-day course teaching Energy Law, which wi...

The name of this blog, The Debate Link , emerged from my time as a high school debater (my first post here was June 2004, shortly after I gr...

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, has died today at age 87 . Many have spoken of the influence his book Night , a m...

UK Labour today released the text of the Chakrabarti Inquiry into anti-Semitism (and other forms of racism). I'm trying to think about ...

In a tightly contested race, citizens of the United Kingdom have voted to leave the European Union . There are two lessons we can draw from ...

A lawsuit just filed in California federal district court seeks to determine whether Hamas rocket fire in 2014 is an act of "war" ...

Among the many, many reasons why it is crucial for our next President to be Hillary Clinton and not Donald Trump, the chance to finally put ...

Richard Armitage, a high-profile Republican foreign policy specialist who held senior appointments in the Reagan and Bush administrations, h...

A British Labour MP Jo Cox has been stabbed to death murdered* in an attack reportedly linked to her opposition to Britain exiting from the...

The Debate Link turns 12 years old today. In the space of that time, I've gotten two degrees and started on a third, taught at two law s...

Radical. Islamic. Terrorism. Is not like Rumpelstiltskin. You do not defeat it by speaking its secret name. The politicians and pundits who ...

I woke up this morning to hear of a horrible tragedy: 50 people murdered at a gay nightclub in Orlando . The attack, which President Obama d...

A simmering human rights tragedy has been unfolding over the past few years in Bangladesh, where Islamist militants have taken to brazen pub...

One well known phenomenon in political science is that, while we talk of left and right as being diametrically opposed (a political "sp...

As you might have heard, a  gorilla was recently shot in a zoo in order to protect a three year old kid who managed to get inside the enclo...

Naz Shah, MP of Bradford West (unseating the odious George Galloway to get the seat), became one of the earlier figures in Labour's anti...

The conventional wisdom is that, upon securing the GOP nomination, Donald Trump has to tack to the center. He can't expect to win over i...