Yglesias calls out Saxby Chambliss for what seems like the 912th nostalgic reference to the Confederacy this year alone. Loomis has some appropriately caustic commentary on the subject. On the subject of Southern heritage, see also Sean Wilentz’ fine review of Nicholas Lemann’s Redemption, a history of Reconstruction that tends, incidentally, to undercut recent reevaluations […]
Month: September 2006
I give Brendan Nyhan fair-n’-balanced credit for this; he prints Tomasky’s justification for pushing him out of the Prospect, which he doesn’t directly rebut because he can’t:
I agree with Erik that the King’s decision to back the coup has essentially ended the political crisis. Thaksin doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of finding his way back into power in
Make sure to read PTJ’s analysis of the Pope’s speech in Germany. The real target, according to PTJ, were Western secularists and non-Catholics. A selection: Hence the irony: Benedict wasn’t attacking Islam; he was ignoring it, and in particular ignoring its claim to be a rival monotheistic religion that deserves to be set on equal […]
As noted previously in this space, there has been a very successful campaign to distort the firestorm over Larry Summers, the gist of which is that even suggesting that there might be innate differenc
Another loss for the Poor Voter Disenfranchisement Act. The most instructive information is this: Perdue and other proponents of the law said it is needed to curtail fraud. They cited an Atlanta Journ
I’m with Mr. Trend; however you feel about A-Rod, this from Jason Giambi is absurd and uncalled for. The garbage about “getting the big hit” is just that; undoubtedly Jason remembers his own big hits much more clearly than the runs that A-Rod drives in. The most ridiculous part of this is that it comes […]
In the proud tradition of so many of his Southern predecessors in the august halls of the United States Senate who proudly used parliamentary procedure to stand up for gross immorality, Republican Maj
I have no particularly deep commentary on the Gerber and Malhotra study discussed by Kieran and here by Kevin Drum. Bitterly fought battles over the relative value of different political science metho
Still in the grip of a tantrum, the Sooners have decided to take their ball and go home: Oklahoma would consider canceling its game at Washington in 2008 if the Pacific 10 Conference doesn’t change its rule requiring league officials to be used at its home stadiums, Sooners coach Bob Stoops said Tuesday. It’s a […]
A White Bear introduces us to the writing-related program activities of the early 20th Century novelist and poet Amanda McKittrick Ros, who indeed is plausibly described as the best worst writer ever.
Shorter Verbatim Harvey C. Mansfield: “To resist rape a woman needs more than martial arts and more than the police; she needs a certain ladylike modesty enabling her to take offense at unwanted