The View From The Back Row
Journalist and photographer Chris Arnade discusses a country divided by meaning, morality, education, and economics.
The Clinton Comedy of Errors
What can we learn from the disaster depicted in “Shattered”?
I Don’t Care How Good His Paintings Are, He Still Belongs In Prison
George W. Bush committed an international crime that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Andrew Sullivan Is Still Racist After All These Years
Viewing racial groups as undifferentiated blobs defined by stereotypes is a dangerous form of bigotry…
The Racism v. Economics Debate Again
Anyone who says the election was “about race” (or “about” anything) has little regard for truth…
Rahm Emanuel’s College Proposal Is Everything Wrong With Democratic Education Policy
Emanuel’s idea is the reductio ad absurdum of the “college solves poverty” idea…
Now Peter Singer Argues That It Might Be Okay To Rape Disabled People
The New York Times lets the utilitarian philosopher make his most horrific argument yet…
Compassion and Politics
We should probably try to be humane and care about people…