Known Unknowns

Known Unknowns

Matthew Yglesias asks Kevin Drum how he knows that the Bush administration isn’t using their domestic wiretapping program in a manner any different from that of the Nixon administration. Not surprisingly, there’s evidence that this has happened. (Via Edge of the American West.)

I also thought this was a great comment on EotAW:

But can he claim it with certainty? Can he rule out that he’s a brain in a vat?

That kind of behavior does not give philosophers a good reputation.