...is just bog-standard reactionary Republican politics. It certainly has nothing to do with "small government."
Month: February 2011
It many have been withdrawn in South Dakota. But similar legislation is now being considered in Nebraska and Iowa. I'm so old I remember when legitimating terrorism was considered a.
The funniest reaction to the Obama administration's salutary decision to not defend the constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA comes, needless to say, from Jeff Goldtsein: Of course, he doesn’t.
By request, below are the links to all of the visual rhetoric exegeses (a.k.a. McCloud or Bordwell-inspired "lecture notes") I've produced in the past few years. I would say I'm surprised there aren't more of them, but then I remember 1) how labor-intensive they are...
I admit that there may be some meat in the interview "David Koch" scored with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, but the most significant element of the Buffalo Beast's prank is.
The Obama administration is refusing to defend this constitutionality of DOMA as it applies to legally married same-sex couples. Sometimes, elections can have positive consequences!
My WPR column this week puts a cap on Thucydipalooza: Thucydides is nearly ubiquitous in the serious and general study of American foreign policy. Although we lack good statistics for how often particular texts are taught in graduate or undergraduate courses, nearly every professor of...
Dahlia Lithwick and Adam Liptak have good articles about yesterday's oral argument in Bond v. U.S. The substantive issue of the case is whether a law implementing the 1993 Chemical.
D.C. federal district judge Gladys Kessler issued the latest ruling, reinforcing the partisan trend. Her opinion is a very solid piece of work, and provides a good account of the.
I like this Peter Beinart much better than the old one. Where the women writers at? Here. "Fiscal hawk," in Villager, means nothing more than "a willingness to attack programs that benefit poor people in order to fund deficit-busting upper-class tax cuts." So Ryan...
This is quite interesting, questioning the argument that factionalism among Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution reflected different class or ideological backgrounds: The work teams that were sent into Beijing's.
My review essay on the protection of civilians is out in Foreign Affairs. I discuss two books - Michael Gross' Moral Dilemmas of Modern War, and Stephen Rockel and Rick.