In Medias Res

Last year, at this time, I shared my favorite Thanksgiving hymn . This time around, let's go with a much humbler song, but one no less a...

Over the last year or so, our girls have become captivated by a lot classic Hollywood musicals. They sing the tunes to each other as part of...

As promised (though a couple of days late, as usual), here's my first round-up of comments, which hopefully will become an irregular bu...

Many thanks to Harry Brighouse of Crooked Timber for linking to my post on Alabama and the likely rejection of Amendment 2, which would hav...

I've spent the two weeks since the election writing again and again about how the socially conservative religious and moral concerns of ...

Since I rebooted the blog , I think I've grown more comfortable with the time it takes up, what I can do with it, and what I expect out ...

Matt Yglesias, citing Jeffrey Rosen, notes over at TAPPED that "The bulk of the conservative judicial agenda has little to do with ab...

Obviously, you just can't say this often enough : the argument isn't that getting progressives in the Democratic party to recogniz...

This morning, at about 4:00am, Megan, our eight-year-old, opened our bedroom door and walked over to my side of the bed. It was dark, and ra...

The argument over the destiny of the Democratic party, hardly a new debate , isn't going to end anytime soon. Along the way, there are b...