Well, Andrew Hofer and Matt Yglesias have chimed in on the prevalence of an “academic left,” so to keep up, I’ll offer a few observations of my own (which I first posted as a comment on Andrew’s site): As an undergrad, I didn’t notice much in the way of a liberal slant to my classes — but then, I wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention in those years, busy

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National Review’s David Kopel reminds readers that

John Leo, writing in U.S. News and World Report, points to some

You know you’ve hit the big time when your site begins showing up in specialty search engines like fetish crawler. Somebody somewhere did a search for “vintage nipples” (don’t ask me, I just work here) and sure ‘nuf, there we were — nestled naughtily between the Yahoo profile of “Cricket” and a Mata Hari site. (“Cricket,” by the way, is “38, single, and looking.” Memo to, uh, “Cricket”: I think

FOXNews is reporting that “Security experts from the U.S. State Department will inspect a utility tunnel running alongside the U.S. Embassy in Rome in connection with an Italian investigation of a group of Moroccans suspected of planning a chemical attack, Embassy officials said Monday.” […]In a part of the tunnel further from the embassy, investigators found a ladder and a work uniform that was different from the type used by

Matthew Yglesias questions my argument (after Jay Nordlinger) that conservatism has become the new progressivism. Writes Matt: I think that this is more of an illusion than anything else. It’s true that the anti-war far left has been much more prominent than any anti-war elements on the far right, but the mainstream of American progressivism broke with those elements long ago. This argument — that those on the left who

You know, if you look at the Canadian flag in just the right way — viewing it from a perspective in which the negative space is dominant — it looks like a graphic arts rendering of the double murder of a pair of identical twins (perhaps even conjoined twins) laying face down (in profile) in a pool of blood. Politically, that’s gotta mean something…

Elizabeth Wurtzel responds: “It’s like…not even art, in the strictest sense, y’know? I mean, the lines are so…crazy. And where’s the dimensionality… Wait. You’re not my pill boy! Who are you people, and what have you done with my pill boy…?”