il n’ya pas de hors-blog
Posted by John Holbo
02:02 PM Apr 2, 2004 - When a man writes a perfectly good Derrida parody about blogging - and when that man has but two comments to reward his clownish labors a week on - that is not justice. By the powers of Crooked Timber, I...
Newsflash: sex discovered in 1985
Posted by John Quiggin
12:38 PM Apr 2, 2004 - This piece in the Melbourne Age by Michael Scammell manages to hit nearly all my hot buttons at once. It includes generation-game garbage, postmodernist apologias for the advertising industry, support for exploitation of workers, and heaps of all-round stupidity. The...
The La Perla Exception
Posted by Belle Waring
03:44 AM Apr 2, 2004 - Eugene Volokh has a post on whether pictures of naked children are regarded as per se child pornography, and what legal standards are applied to determine the status of such photos. The conclusion he draws is, be careful: “So when...
L.A. Phil
Posted by Jon Mandle
03:10 AM Apr 2, 2004 - I’m back from my trip to Pasadena for the mini-conference on “Global Justice.” (It was great.) My title, however, refers not to philosophy but to the L.A. Philharmonic. I’ll post something about the conference if I find the time and...
Democratic snake-oil
Posted by Henry
09:58 PM Apr 1, 2004 - The newest political scientist in the blogosphere, Daniel Geffen, brings up an important reason why Iraq is unlikely to become a democratic exemplar for the Middle East. Oil. Heavy oil exporters have a miserable democratic record, with the sole exception...
Carl Schmitt
Posted by Ted
09:27 PM Apr 1, 2004 - Reader Ted Clayton brings an interesting article to my attention from the Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s about the fascist political philosopher Carl Schmitt. Just a sample: Schmitt argued that liberals, properly speaking, can never be political. Liberals tend to...
Big Blair is watching you
Posted by Daniel
06:05 PM Apr 1, 2004 - Great news for British people who occasionally worry that they might be stranded away from the comforting gaze of a CCTV camera, or who think that the police force has too many restraints placed on it in the name of...
AirMILES!!!!
Posted by Daniel
02:44 PM Apr 1, 2004 - Oh bloody hell he’s annoying me now. In the course of an insanely annoying piece of Globollocks (summary: Mexico went through hell to get ready for NAFTA and ended up hardly benefiting, so now what it needs is more neo-liberalism...
In IT news
Posted by Eszter
02:28 PM Apr 1, 2004 - After noting yesterday that “Diebold electronic voting machines are a danger to our democracy”, it makes all the sense in the world that Avi Rubin would announce today that he is joining Diebold to become its Chief Security Officer. Well,...
Flags and posters
Posted by Chris
12:58 PM Apr 1, 2004 - My visit to the US was my first since 9/11 and, thankfully, the tonality of New York doesn’t seem to have changed all that much. I’m sure, though, that many foreign visitors are struck by the sheer number of US...