There a couple of things I don’t like about Taibbi’s take on the upcoming election. I’m uncomfortable with his tone–which at times seems to betray a barely-disguised admiration of Trump. I also don’t know you reconcile accusing Dems of being Debbie Downers, while making an exhaustive list of Trump’s most infuriating and disgusting characteristics and […]
President Trump on Tuesday suggested that Jewish people who vote for Democrats are either ignorant or disloyal as he railed against two congresswomen who have been critical of the U.S.-Israel all
Randy Barnett is tweeting poolside from Provence to let you know he’s extremely interested in human freedom
CommentsI really hate this timeline. ETA: Critical initial context here, “in which Barnett sneers at the 1619 project while getting in some Russia trooferism” (thanks Scott): BTW Barnett is curren
Heather Mac Donald has a “Trump’s critics are the Real Racists” column that is nutty even by the standards of the genre. It’s all stuff like this: America’s universities deserve credit for this double standard. Identity politics dominate higher education: Administrators, students and faculty obsessively categorize themselves and each other by race. “White privilege,” often […]
In a two part series over at the National Interest, I summarize the history of efforts to build hybrid battleship-aircraft carriers. Part I: Almost as soon as navies began to contemplate the idea of a
This is the grave of John McLoughlin. Born in Quebec in 1784, Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin grew up Catholic, despite a Scots-Irish father. His father married a Quebecois woman and so the boy was baptized
“I Represent the Public Golf Courses, the Working Man, the Blue Collar Worker”: Celebrating Golf Legend Lee Trevino on the 35th anniversary of his final major win
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Over at The Ringer I wrote about one of my favorite ever athletes, the great golfer Lee Trevino, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of his final major championship. Includes wonderful stories from Tom Watson, Gary Player and other giants of the sport! Check it out if you are so inclined. Trevino’s story is […]
I can’t come up with a better punchline than this: https://t.co/ff9z2PI2YR pic.twitter.com/qyTbYdtv1Z — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 20, 2019
The right-wing freakout over the Times’s 1619 story is supposedly based on the idea that a critical look at the history of slavery in the Americas will lead inevitably to a “delegitimizati
As Erik observed, conservatives and “libertarians” continue to be upset about the 1619 project, not because they have any empirical or substantive objection but because they object to doing such analysis in principle: 1. the first essay of the package is literally about the ways black americans loved this country despite its profound flaws and […]
This story about the aftermath of ICE’s mass detentions in Mississippi is excellent: Welcome to this city of babysitters, where the sudden disappearance of hundreds of working adults has pulled
Based on some comments I read last week, it seems that there’s still an appetite here for a general national security/foreign policy roundup. I’m going to make an effort to make an effort