In Medias Res

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ] Yesterday, I and another member of our church went to talk and counsel with a family in our congregat...

Richard Posner has written a defense of the Electoral College , which is one of the several elements of our national Constitution which I do...

This morning I dropped my oldest daughter off at an early-morning church class, then drove to another church, which happens to be our local ...

Writing a book on current events is a complicated crap-shoot. In an age of blogs, social media, and basically instantaneous communication, t...

It starts out as just another one of those delightful bits of perverse fake lip-reading...but then, a little past the 2 minute mark, it turn...

[Cross-posted to Political Context ] About three weeks ago Conor Friedersdorf, a libertarianish blogger for The Atlantic, put up a post ab...

Three weeks from today, I'll be able to vote for my preferred candidate for president of the United States, for my regional congressiona...

It was 1992, in Provo, Utah, and a student newspaper I contributed to, and a feminist club I hung around with, had a joint, great idea for a...

I'd never consciously listened to a James Taylor song before the two years I spent in South Korea on a proselytizing mission for the Mor...

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ] Amy Sullivan has an article on The New Republic's website this morning, calling Mitt Romney ...