I have a piece in the Daily Beast, commenting on the fact that Obama's judicial nominations are getting rejected by the ABA at four times the rate that Bush II's and Clinton's were.
(This be yet another one of them posts. The direct sequel to this one, in fact.) In the previous post, we learned that the Doctor can accomplish quite a bit by yelling.
Duss: As a recent CBS poll showed, the neoconservative agenda remains broadly unpopular among Americans, but as long as neocons continue to occupy prominent think tanks, editorial boards, and cable news.
(This be another one of them posts.) Remember that post I wrote at the beginning of the quarter about the first episode of the fifth season of Doctor Who? Of course you don't: it's still in my draft folder. The whole point of that post—which I'll briefly recapitulate...
The threat of his becoming President of the United States has passed, but Texans (including the many who didn't vote for him) remain stuck with him.
Corey Robin has more, and it's crucial reading: Like many critics of state coercion in America, Wolf seems to assume that political repression requires or entails national coordination and centralized.
Legal academia is very much on the defensive at the moment, which is all to the good. The mixture of outrage and pearl-clutching which greeted David Segal's latest entry in his series in the New York Times on the state of American legal education is a...
Very disappointing piece from Kevin Drum supporting Alan Haus' call for unions that only negotiate wages and nothing else. Haus, an employment lawyer, is packaging old-school company unionism in new.
...apparently not running again. He will be missed. He's the only prominent political figure I've ever had an actual conversation with, and he was just as whip-smart as you would.
A Ross Douthat column I agree with almost entirely. In particular, I agree that JFK deserves far more of the blame for Vietnam than he usually gets, and I don't find assertions that he was going to extricate the U.S. from that quagmire remotely plausible. And...
Naomi Wolf has another conspiracy theory she wishes you to consider: In other words, for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of its chain of.
I thought that Jon Chait's long article on leftist disappointment with Democratic Presidents was interesting, but that it succeeded in identification of such discontent without making much effort to explain.