Ezra Klein

Mark Kleiman makes a good point, noting that the gold standard of intelligence studies — twins raised in separate environments — is unable to separate out that the two subjects spent nine crucial developmental months packed into a crowded womb, dependent on a mother’s health and nutrition that varies wildly with class. If, during that […]

Scott Lemieux takes up the Nader wars, arguing that Ralph was really Bush’s best friend: Actually, I am taking him at his word: “If you want the parties to diverge from one another, have Bush win.” “Which, Nader confided to Outside in June, wouldn’t be so bad. When asked if someone put a gun to […]

Molly Ivins: Bill Moyers has been grappling with how to fit moral issues to political issues ever since he left Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and went to work for Lyndon Johnson in the teeth of the Vietnam War. Moyers worked for years in television, seriously addressing the most difficult issues of our day. He has […]

Responding to the heat wave in LA, Prof. Bainbridge writes: Still, I’m feeling less libertarian about [global warming] every day the temperature stays above 90. Funny how that works. It’s like I’ve said before — if a neocon is a liberal who got mugged, a progressive is a conservative who got sick.

Bill First appears to have started some sort of community-oriented health care blog — MedicalMatters.org. According to the mission statement, the site will “promote the GOP’s health care policy priorities and provide a forum to discuss 21st century medical challenges…[and] also highlight the failures of the Democrat Party to address these long-term challenges.” Rarely do […]

It’s hard to appreciate the level of frustration that spurs a zionist to compare his fellow Jews to Palestinians. But David Gelernter, surveying the unwillingness of American Jews to mindlessly back Bush, has reached his limit: American Jews are not Palestinians and have not sunk to the level of supporting terrorist murderers. But their behavior […]

Jane Galt has the most tightly argued post debunking the fear that blogs will replace the media that I’ve yet seen. It’s one of those must-read thingies the kids are always talking about. I’d add that the warlike relationship so often assumed between blogs and the media strikes me as a backwards interpretation — the […]

This is pretty funny.

Behold your nation’s op-ed columnists. Here’s Tom Friedman confiding his secret authorial techniques to Tim Russert: “We got this free market, and I admit, I was speaking out in Minnesota–my hometown, in fact, and guy stood up in the audience, said, `Mr. Friedman, is there any free trade agreement you’d oppose?’ I said, `No, absolutely […]

Via Tom Bevan, you’ve really go to see Florida Congressman Rob Wexler admit to liking cocaine and prostitutes: