Recently finished reading Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton. I unreservedly recommend it to just about anyone interested in the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution. Chernow is clearly sympathetic to Hamilton in his conflicts against Jefferson, Madison, and the other Republicans. Chernow does not overlook the faults...
Robert Farley
I think that Ezra Klein has it right, and Elbert Ventura quite wrong, on Hero, the new film from Zhang Yimou. If you haven't seen it, go now. The Ventura review contains several.
From the BBC, via Matt Duss: Rock band Queen, fronted by gay icon Freddie Mercury, has become the first rock act to receive an official seal of approval in Iran. Mercury, who.
We passed the 1000th Iraqi casualty today, but that's not really all that important. I, and I think most Americans, are willing to accept casualties in the service of a good cause. It's the whole "1000 Americans dead for no good reason" that bother me....
Atrios reminds me of something I occasionally forget; that Andrew Sullivan is pond scum: Sullivan was literally concerned that the "decadent Left" was plotting treason against the country, desiring to.
Via Brian Leiter, I see that some PBS show I've never heard of is showing an episode devoted to John Rawls. Leiter tells me that the host is a right-wing hack, which.
Redbeard's got himself a damn fine post this morning: Have you not heard of that comedian who spliced together news footage and cried "Whither is truth?" As many media figures shared his timeslot, he provoked much laughter. Was it spun? asked one. Was it drowned...
For those who have never read it, the Toledo Blade series on "Tiger Force" describes the activities of a U.S. Army unit in Vietnam in 1967. The unit perpetrated several.
At least of the major political parties in the United Kingdom. Apparently, 10 Downing is quietly cheering for a Kerry victory. Much of the rest of the party is not-so-quietly cheering:.
Irrational Robot points out that the Republican platform is calling for four constitutional amendments. These include a) an amendment in support of "human life" which presumably would ban abortion, b) an amendment to protect marriage from those pushing "the homosexual lifestyle", c) an amendment to...
Alan Krueger and David Laitin have an article in the latest Foreign Affairs discussing the State Department's infamous terrorism report for 2003. As you may recall, the report was unveiled.
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