Dunham

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is correct. The attacks on Lena Dunham as the ultimate purveyor of white privilege in the arts are utterly bizarre. This isn't to say Dunham doesn't benefit from white privilege or shouldn't think of casting non-whites in her show, but she hardly benefits more...

Anything Can Work

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Including adopting the preferred strategy of talk-radio callers and pinch hitting for your #3 hitter.  Dammit. Meanwhile, Soriano throwing 5 balls, having two of them called strikes, and then having his first decent pitch absolutely crushed for a line drive DP...hopefully this doesn't mean that the...

The Myth of Walter Cronkite and Vietnam

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Symbols are often mistaken for causes.   As a Supreme Court scholar, it's striking to me that probably the two most famous Supreme Court decisions of the 19th Century are Marbury v. Madison and Dred Scott.   It's striking because neither one mattered very much.   Even college-level textbooks...
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