Month: March 2011

Today, one of the more popular conspiracies that the Right has ginned up out of whole cloth is of a worldwide Islamofascist movement that endangers our lives and our “freedoms.” They claim that Muslims are...

Vine Deloria, in Custer Died for Your Sins:  An Indian Manifesto, had two intended audiences: Indians and white people.  His project, throughout his whole career, was to undermine the intellectual assumptions that...

In some sense, if you chose to play sports at Brigham Young University, you knew what you’re getting into, but in another sense this is the dumbest thing I’ve read in my life. A university in the US state of Utah has...

The blogosphere must be doing something right. It must be providing something important that is lacking in the news you get on your teevee and in the newspapers that are delivered to your door. If it wasn’t, the Chamber of...

. Throw Clarence Thomas Off the Bench Ginni Thomas was paid nearly $700,000 by the Heritage Foundation, a “conservative think tank,” between 2003 and 2007, as well as an undisclosed amount by another lobbying group...