The New Republic

I sometimes wonder whether the anonymity of the Internet has not only ushered in a less civil age but a more misogynistic one. Just check out this article in Wednesday's Washington Post about AutoAdmit, a law school discussion board. READ MORE >>

Since I linked to yesterday's Politico story about Bill Richardson's "personal life," I feel I should also link to Garance's smart retort to it: READ MORE >>

by Jacob T. Levy This is a commentary on the "Wolfe v. Berkowitz" stuff that's been going on on the main page and at The Weekly Standard, not in OU; and it's all 'who said what to whom in rejoinder to which rebuttal' kind of material. Read the whole thing at your own peril. READ MORE >>

by Eric Rauchway READ MORE >>

From the State Department's latest human rights report, Kazakhstan chapter: READ MORE >>

A few days ago, TNR Online published a powerhouse essay by Alvin Rosenfeld, a distinguished literary scholar at Indiana Univeristy, on anti-Semitism and left and liberal criticism of Israel. Maybe you didn't read it. If so, here's another chance. READ MORE >>

The Washington Post has a horrifying story today about a 12-year-old kid who died of a toothache. The family had lost its Medicaid coverage and couldn't afford a routine tooth extraction, and so bacteria from the abscess spread to the kid's brain and he died--that is, after six weeks of hospital care and two operations that cost the state over $250,000. READ MORE >>

The right must have absolutely no good opposition research on Barack Obama. Here was Sean Hannity last night, really scraping the bottom of the barrel: READ MORE >>

by Linda Hirshman READ MORE >>

The SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) is back! Or is it? Actually, I hadn't noticed that it was. But Maurice Isserman, an honest American historian at Hamilton College with an SDS past and a familial Communist background, has written a story for the current Chronicle of Higher Education on whether or not the organization actually exists and what it really is. READ MORE >>