Phoebe Connelly

Kate is on top of reporting Pat Robertson‘s endorsement of Rudy Giuliani, which broke after press time for this week’s FundamentaList. As I’ve written both here and elsewhere, the endorsement of the big figures is a bit overrated in the eyes of the press; to the rank and file, endorsements of top leaders are helpful, […]

Anabel Lee interviewed Bill McKibben on green activism and his new book Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community: While writing this book, did you and the Step It Up team have in mind any movements of the past? I think for us the civil rights movement is the great […]

If you haven’t been following the discussion about this year’s farm bill, head over to the New York Times and read Michael Pollan‘s

Scott takes up the challenge: Before the hearings … I was fully prepared to endorse Mukasey as the least bad option. This was contingent, however, on his backing away from the policies of the administration on two crucial questions: arbitrary executive power and torture. However, Mukasey’s testimony at the second day of hearings was unacceptable. […]

The World Series starts tonight and I’m rooting for my team, the Red Sox. Putting aside as much as possible my built-in biases for them, I still predict they’ll win in six games or fewer. Josh Beckett looks unstoppable lately, and the Sox battled .306 in their league championship while the Rockies batted just .242. […]

I just watched a taped panel from Saturday at the Family Research Council meeting on liberal bias in the media. The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund and National Review’s Rich Lowry were on it, and though I didn’t catch every minute, what’s fascinating is the degree to which they are convinced the media is biased […]

The Supreme Court’s order yesterday halting a Virginia execution has the potential to halt executions across the country until the Court delivers an opinion on a pending death penalty case. That case, Baze v. Rees, asks whether the commonly used protocol for lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. “I think this is a de […]

To expand on Ezra‘s point as to the wisdom of bringing the debate over the Armenian genocide to the floor of Congress, Laurent Pech over at Jurist has a excellent point about the effects of legislating history: My general position is that no Parliament should legislate to promote or worse, enforce particular historical truths. In […]

I whooped for joy this morning when I read over at the Times that Doris Lessing won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. As the Guardian notes, she’s only the 11th woman to win the prize, and the oldest living person to be awarded the honor. She’s best know for The Golden Notebook which is […]