“Human” and “human life” have biological and philosophical senses. The former is not complicated. The latter is. The fact that people disagree about the second does not license denying the first, that biological human life begins at conception. When *rights* begin is philosophy.

Sunset on Lake Miltona.

I’m grateful that Kagan and Sotomayor have both recently written brief concurrences with orders they doubtless do not like but felt the law required. Regular order is a good thing.

RT @historigins: These videos will make your day. A thread 🧵. 1. An autistic, non-verbal boy speaks directly to his mom for the very first….

RT @MuseZack: My most bleeding heart opinion is that it's good for society to give poor people free or heavily discounted access to cultura….

RT @derektmuller: For reference, a bill of attainder in English law meant the legislature declared a person guilty and punished with execut….

RT @AriSchulman: Even the strongest theodicy faces the problem that every fresh evil must newly shake us, at least if we have not simply de….

RT @DouthatNYT: Nothing makes me sympathize with Elon's longshot plan to elect a handful of independent senators to encourage fiscal discip….

RT @jadler1969: Absurd.

RT @jenniferdoleac: More on how the probability of getting caught matters more than the severity of punishment:.

RT @jenniferdoleac: Excellent article by @germanrlopez for the @nytimes about a big, important problem in the US: . Most crimes aren’t solv….

RT @itaisher: I continue to find chatGPT very useful but I have to say that after about a month of intensive usage, the illusion of intelli….

RT @damintoell:

Idyllic.

Very informative discussion of Iran’s nuclear history and ambitions with @connor_echols and Alan Eyre

Minnesota has some commendable beauty.

RT @NC_Renic: 🥂 SHE SAID YES (I asked her if she was sick of hearing about my article).

Interesting thought.

RT @tedfrank: Adjusted for inflation, fed/state/local governments give four times as much to the bottom 20% as they did in 1979, even thoug….

RT @tedfrank: American Jews invented the hot dog and the song “God Bless America.” And the polio vaccine that makes summers safe. So the….

Excellent @matthewwalther analysis of Trump’s “governance.” Withering.