The New York Times starts a series “examining the lives of youth across the Muslim world at a time of religious revival” in Egypt: Here in Egypt and across the Middle East, many young people are being forced to put off marriage, the gateway to independence, sexual activity and societal respect. Stymied by the government’s failure to provide adequate schooling and thwarted by an economy without jobs to match their

Via email, this mildly humorous story found at not the wolverine: Yesterday, TheNinja and I rode to Princeton for what has become a pretty regular weekend ride: ride – coffee – ride. Typically, we stop at Small World Coffee, so I can increase my bougy academic cred by drinking way too expensive organic fair trade coffee and listening to world music (and the baristas are way cute). As we were

His Arch-Puppetude holds forth on the purported psychological exhaustion caused by the continual attention paid to the Islamist menace by those who do pay attention to it, stating that in fact those who continually focus on the threat–a canard uptrumped in order to facilitate Executive power-grabbing and the shredding of the Constitution in general–actually enjoy this posture, because it lends an element of romance to their otherwise pointless lives to believe

David Thompson: To avoid printing the cartoons – or to avoid any public suggestion that Islam is anything other than a Religion of Peaceâ„¢ – would not only show that death threats and violent thuggery work it would also imply that such thuggery is a morally legitimate response. It is not. Burning down schools and destroying libraries is simply not a sane reaction to the publication of a cartoon. Likewise, threatening to “take to the streets”

Sen. Hillary Clinton is scaling back her Wisconsin campaign schedule by a full day.  It looks like Sen. Barack Obama also may be leaving early.  Jeff Greenfield thought it could have been fertile ground for Clinton.  Chris Bowers thought (and may still think) it is a “must-win” for Obama. My speculation would be that neither side was moving the numbers there enough to affect their projected delegate take and are moving onto