What exactly is a Chicken Hawk? Or a Sparrow Hawk, or Pigeon Hawk? Or even a Duck Hawk, for that matter? You don't hear the terms very often any longer, but old bird books actually list those as the ...

Reading some reader comments earlier on Eschaton’s blog reminded me of this terrific Chrisopher Hitchens piece in Slate last November debunking the “chicken hawk” argument. It’s worth re-visiting.