Dylan Matthews is a research assistant at the Washington Post, a president of Perspective: Harvard’s Liberal Monthly, and a biweekly columnist for the Harvard Crimson. He blogs intermittently at his personal blog, Minipundit. The US doesn’t have that many real national security threats. Great power conflict has become a thing of the past, and conventional [...]
NPR reports that Penn State professor Philip Jenkins thinks so: “”Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible,” Jenkins says. Violence in the Quran, he and others say, is largely a defense against attack. “By the standards of the [...]
Oh please, no. Please let it be some kind of early April fool’s joke! Someone tell me it’s a lie that there’s going to be a spinoff of Jersey Shore: The producers do not yet have a deal to make the show, but, so far, they have received hundreds of audition videos. “Yesterday someone [...]
That’s the question I’ve been wondering. Fortunately the people at Crooks and Liars have the answer: -Adult children may remain as dependents on their parents’ policy until their 27th birthday -Children under age 19 may not be excluded for pre-existing conditions -No more lifetime or annual caps on coverage -Free preventative care for all -Adults [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union isn’t too happy with the University’s strict rules limiting political canvassing in dormitories. The Michigan Daily reported Friday that Mary Sue Coleman received a collaborative letter from University, county, and state chapters of the ACLU urging her to lift the current ban preventing political candidates and supporters from campaigning door-to-door [...]
Paul Krugman has a pretty good op-ed in the New York Times today about why he thinks we should pass the current health care legislation. Basically, Krugman thinks it’s morally obligatory to pass the bill (to stop the predatory practices of some insurance companies), and he thinks that while the current bill isn’t perfect, it’s [...]
