Eric Alterman has an affecting essay about, among other things, the ultimately quite complex question of the relationship between an author's intentions for a text and the meaning interpreters choose.
Charles Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a man who thinks ahead: Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley named two conservative senators as preferred replacements for a potential Supreme Court vacancy.
Kevin Williamson is a hard right cultural critic of long standing, who for many years was part of the National Review cartel. He's best known in progressive circles I suppose.
Peter Baker on the front page of the New York Times: President Trump’s erratic behavior and extreme comments in recent days and weeks have turbocharged the crazy-like-a-fox-or-just-plain-crazy debate that has.
A friend has some thoughts I wanted to pass on: He is so genuinely dumb as to not know that oil is a commodity and even if we "have enough".
A great day for liberal democrats everywhere. Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, a lodestar for MAGA culture warriors and right-wing populists in Europe, conceded defeat on Sunday in a.
This is one of those topics that politicians have to handle delicately, but which doesn't require any such discretion at a top 100 political science blog. JD Vance's little campaign.
Scott makes an important point about the ultimate futility of formal legal rules, when discussing Trump's completely open willingness to use the pardon power to enable his essentially bottomless personal.
