This is making the rounds: “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few […]
Month: May 2005
As a follow-up to my post about pro-choice politics and populism, Matt provides some extremely useful data: People were asked what they think about “making it more difficult for a woman to get a
I know you’ll think I’m making it up, but I swear that walking argument against nepotism (and film critic who makes Michael Medved look like Pauline Kael) John Podhoretz wrote the followin
Tbogg and Attaturk do some good work taking John Tierney’s latest apart, but I don’t think they go quite far enough. Let’s forget, for a moment, that John Tierney is a complete fucking hack whose career is built around repeating Republican Party talking points. Instead of thinking about that, let’s take his argument seriously, as […]
I’m not the sort that reads Powerline with any regularity, but this caught my attention: It’s great to see someone standing up for colonialism, especially British colonialism. I agree whol
Matt continues to give Jonah Goldberg a well-deserved thrashing; Jonah should try, in the future, not to piss off those who are both smarter and better read than he. The Juan Cole experience should ha
Shorter Stanley Kurtz: “The fact that anti-feminist screeds that are given massive amounts of coverage in major media organs sell bubkes proves that feminism is only found among ‘elites’.”
I had particular reason to be grateful this Mother’s Day, as for my birthday my parents bought me a ninth-row center seat to the Broadway revival of that heartwarming pean to maternal values and
The General offers a submission.
I rarely have much to say about discussions of “populism,” partly because it’s never entirely clear what the content of such a politics would look like, and the historical antecedents aren’t very promising. The slipperiness of the term is crystallized for me by the fact that Matt, in explaining (generally plausibly) why Harry Reid is […]
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The Mock Turtle finds Professer InstaHack trying to spin the recent British elections as a political triumph for Blair’s support of the Iraq war, using his time-honored technique of printing ema