If Treasury Secretary-designate Tim Geithner can rsquo t get his own taxes right why should we trust him with ours It is a fair question but one that I suspect has a simple answer My guess is that Mr Geithner actually does not do his own taxes but instead hires someone to do them But that rais

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Disproportion in warfare is sometimes a simple matter of commonsense As Justice Potter Stewart wrote of hardcore pornography ldquo I know it when I see it rdquo We don rsquo t need philosophers and moral theologians to define it for us When we heard in Vietnam that ldquo We destroyed the vill

What rsquo s good for the goose is good for the gays Anyone who supported the selection of controversial evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the prayer at the Inaugural ceremony must now support the selection of controversial Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson to give the opening prayer at the Li

As well as being the 400th anniversary of Galileo s glimpse of Jupiter s moons 2009 is the bicentenary of Charles Darwin s birth -- and the 150th anniversary of his epoch-changing work On the Origin of the Species Should it occur to anyone Dawkins put down that finch to dress the ninete

The Holocaust was an evil of enormous proportions In the West at least it has become an iconic horror and in the face of similar atrocities much intellectual labor has been expended to sustain its unique standing in the popular imagination as the evil par excellence Comparisons and analogies a