What's a Wednesday evening without a bad slapstick anti-German comedy from 1918 that features Stan Laurel in a supporting part?
Month: November 2016
I don't usually just compose posts that consist of tweets. But extraordinary times call for unusual measures. Donald Trump is literally Prince John from Disney's 1973 animated classic, Robin Hood..
We all need things to read other than articles where liberals and the left yell at each other over the election, depressing election post-mortems, and pieces describing the horrors to.
As you may have heard, it looks like Donald Trump has picked Steven Mnuchin to be his candidate for Secretary of the Treasury. As they should, Democrats have seized on this news, because Mnuchin is an ex-Goldman Sachs hedge funder, and is moreover implicated in...
I am non-religious. I grew up Lutheran, which cured me of all religion. Didn't turn me into an atheist. Basically, because I can't know if there's a higher power, I.
I assume that I don't need to spend a lot of time reminding readers of the following: The 2016 election was a breakout year for fake news, and much of that.
One of the greatest arguments in favor of Fidel Castro was his anti-colonial, anti-racist foreign policy in Africa. Two essays discuss this critical part of his legacy. First: Cuba’s involvement in Africa started with its support of Algeria’s liberation struggle against...
My latest at the Diplomat takes a look at the state of intellectual property protection in the wake of the death of.
On the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt Duss and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross discuss the condition of Things Trump: How will Trump change U.S. foreign policy? 6:19 Trump’s “America First” foreign.
It's funny because it's true. If Obama offered a deal to raise taxes through tax reform while reducing entitlements, Brooks would write a sad column about how nobody was willing to raise taxes through tax reform while reducing entitlements. If Obama favored education reform, an...
After getting over the worst of the shock from the results of the '16 election, I've been trying to collect my thoughts and take some lessons from it. 1.).
Actually, neither silent nor a majority Whenever you observe that the Electoral College is indefensible, someone invested in the legitimacy of a president illegitimately chosen by the Electoral College is.