The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: MIND MATTERS. Neil Sinhababu (everyone’s favorite ethical werewolf) makes the philosophical case against Ramesh Ponnuru‘s views on moral status and personhood in The Party of Death. Read to find out why Ponnuru’s philosophy would mean “shrug[ging] at the enslavement of hobbits, the slaughter of kittens, and the destruction of all […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: TANF TURNS TEN. On this, the 10th anniversary of welfare reform, we’ve posted two articles assessing a decade of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. From our March print issue, Chrisopher Jencks, Scott Winship, and Joseph Swingle analyze what went right (or at least, better than feared) and what may still […]

FROM THE SEPTEMBER PRINT ISSUE: THE RISE OF THE REPUBLICRATS. The Bush era has signalled the death of small government conservatism. What comes next for the GOP? Ezra reads the tea leaves: …[T]hree longer-term factors have deprived [small govenrment conservatism] of both intellectual legitimacy and popular support: structural changes in the GOP�s coalition, accelerating economic […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: BODEGA BLUES. Matt elaborates his argument that liberals shouldn’t let their criticisms of Wal-Mart lead them into enlisting in the cause of mom-and-pop retail. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. Bruce Ackerman argues that we should act now to devise a new statutory frameword for federal emergency powers — before the next terrorist attack sweeps away the prospects of checking the government’s powers. The emergency statute should recognize that extraordinary powers are indeed justified in the […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: STORM TROOPER. Addie Stan reviews the new book Through the Eye of the Storm, Cholene Espinoza‘s account of her time in a small Mississippi town ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. (Our own Tara McKelvey interviewed Espinoza here.) –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: MY SUMMER READING JOURNAL. The president reads Camus and describes his existential journey to writer Julian Sanchez in a series of fascinating diary entries. This is a side of George W. Bush that few have seen before. –The Editors

FROM THE PRINT ISSUE: JUST A GIGOLO. Everyone’s talking about George Allen today. No doubt the man has some ethnic sensitivity issues. And as our own Garance Franke-Ruta details in the Prospect‘s September issue, the Virginia senator has got some business issues too: In the 1990s, he served on the board of a Virginia tech […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: STAKES ON A PLANE. Matt makes the case against the new airport security measures. –The Editors

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: WHAT’S IN A NAME? Mike makes the case against the Washington Redskins’ name. –The Editors