Ezra Klein

As posed to Cheney: BLITZER: Let me read to you from comments that Karl Rove … A lot of Democrats are pretty irate about those comments. They want him to retract them. How the question would have been posed if Karl Rove were a Democrat: BLITZER: Let me read to you from comments that Karl […]

I was thinking of calling this post Talking Points Memo, but that name is already in use. Atrios points to AmericaBlog issuing a call for better Democrat message control. It requires an echo chamber. But, bloggers are probably too political. You know how too many Democrats and progressive groups in DC are — they do […]

(Hello, Kleinians. Shakes here. This post, crossposted from Shakespeare’s Sister, is perhaps a bit unusual for Ezra’s place, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.)

In a case that has split progressive bloggers–with such luminaries as Atrios and Belle Waring taking the side of the dissenters today–the Supreme Court has ruled in Kelo v. New London that New London’s condemnation of property for private economic development was a constitutional taking. This was expected after the oral argument, although the 5-4 […]

I’ve seen the recent Star Wars prequels. Besides the usual criticisms, I feel that there was something missing from the visual feel of the new movies. And that thing was dirt.

Hi there folks, Prof Goose from TOD here. I woke up with a nasty allergy headache this morning. So, I’m just going to put together a linkfest for you instead of shrinking and integrating articles for you today. These links include discussions of China’s proposed acquisition of Unocal, gas taxes/prices, the Democatic New Apollo energy […]

Hey, Prof. Goose from The Oil Drum here. As I mentioned in my first couple of posts, there are many constituent parts of the peak oil/energy issue. These parts include production, consumption, policy, mass psychology, environmental/green concerns, corporate/business interests, geology and exploration, and finally alternative sources of energy. One of the things we’ve been doing […]

Yesterday PZ Myers threatened me with an attack by a zombie. Zombies are perhaps the movie monster that I find most compelling. I’ve actually had nightmares about zombies. As a child I was afraid of ghosts, and I am not afraid of zombies in the same way that I was afraid of ghosts, indeed, I […]

I was interested to see Rosenfeld and Yglesias discuss Jeffrey Rosen’s article in last week’s Times Magazine, in which Rosen discovered that courts often tend to represent national majorities. Oddly, my co-blogger Dave and I presented a paper at the Law & Society conference on this very topic. The late Alexander Bickel wrote a book, […]