Christmas Ezra posts

Welcome, new readers coming over from the Leiter Reports!

I do guest posts at Ezra Klein's place on the weekends. The first of the weekend is Wonks play offense, a discussion of the importance of having smart policy people around, and an explanation of why they're feeling so melancholy and insignificant lately. Contains extended football metaphor.

update: *sigh* I worried that I was overextending the wonky wankathon, and then that's all anyone else wanted to write about this weekend. Oh well.

I also have a post on the mutability of religion, with specific reference to Islam. (If you read only one of these two posts, read this one.)