The Debate Link

When I look at men like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, I see men who are fundamentally weak. That sounds judgmental. And it is, to ...

Ted Cruz must be so jealous : Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously voted on Tuesday to ban sex outside of marriage and insulting the president...

Among the many, many terrible things Mort Klein has written -- well, I don't actually want to rank them, because there's a lot bad. ...

Commenting on Judge Brown's opinion that I talked about in my last post , Professor Kerr also expresses his discomfort with "the p...

A friend was surprised I haven't written on the Henry Louis Gates arrest. Meh, I've been busy. I think the arrest was probably a dum...

I've worked really, really hard to stay out of the Carrie Prejean story. She's free to defend "opposite marriage" as much ...

Responding to my post on why it's wrong to be happy when the suffering of marginalized people gets worse , Larry, aka the Barefoot Bum ...

Larry Hamelin , husband of The Apostate , has a post making the type of old, old- school leftist argument that I haven't heard in awhile...

In the comments to this Southern Appeal post , we had yet another discussion about the meaning of Jeremiah Wright's "chickens comin...

This is a chilling story recounted by Bishop T.D. Jakes: I have twin boys who are almost 30 years old now. But when they were very young, I...

Last year, I wrote a post asking whether or not people would have thought it morally justified for Blacks in 1856 to engage in a full-on re...

Tom Lasseter's report on innocent people detained by the United States in our war on terror ( remember this case? ) reminds me of my re...

As someone who keeps a casual eye on the stock market (and who, of course, wants a functioning economy upon graduation), obviously I'm c...

On NY Governor Elliot Spitzer's "links" to a recent prostitution bust, what LGM says : # If I were in charge of writing laws, ...

The latest salvo in my and Mark's ongoing debate on questions of race focused specifically on whether states qua states should apologi...

One of the typical arguments trotted out against official apologies for historical atrocities (slavery, genocide, apartheid, etc.) is that ...

Over at The Plank, Michelle Cottle reports that John McCain is establishing a "truth squad" specifically to counter negative atta...

Note: This post has nothing to do with the book by Drucilla Cornell (to my knowledge; I've never read it) aside from the fact that she...

Upon request, Kevin Drum receives a conservative argument as to why it's okay for America to torture in the war on terror. He reprints ...

Of importance to this post and this post is a great point by Scott Lemieux on the issue of "motives" in conduct with racially d...