Hmm, Can West has taken over the New Republic–but, alas, Marty Peretz is keeping his stake. Apparently they’ll be moving to a bi-weekly, twice-the-length format (if this means more space for the book review, frankly it could be an improvement.) Amusingly, Kit Seelye’s article takes at face value claims that the decline in circulation was […]
Month: February 2007
Obviously, I agree entirely with the substance of Paul Campos’s reply to Glenn Reynolds’s attempts to defend illegal and counterproductive assassinations. Since it came up in comments too,
Since I’m apparently incapable of coming up with ideas of my own this week, I’m going to add once again to something Rob just wrote. I’ve never been particularly involved with distan
Indeed, it’s now remarkable easy to construct a course such that the benefits (other than the degree) are pretty much non-exclusive. In my Defense Statecraft course, for example, anyone could participate on the blog and follow along with the syllabus. Were I not as lazy and shiftless as I am, I would already have posted […]
Today, I am sorry to report, concludes another year of Bill Frist’s unwholesome existence. Happily for all, though, Frist’s 55th birthday marks the first time since 1995 that he’s no
In comments to this post, I’m afraid that regular commenter Anderson has fallen for the old conservertarian bait-and-switch: Yeah, quite frankly, I think punitives are a terrible idea in general
Good news from the Great Faces, Great Places state: An abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest and health of the mother was rejected Wednesday morning by legislative committee in Pierre. The Senate State Affairs Committee just voted 8 to 1 to kill HB1293 without a vote of the full Senate. Supporters of the bill […]
In addition to being bad on the merits, what puzzles me about Tom Vilsack’s decision to end his campaign yesterday is what makes him think it would work. I’ll admit that I’m no polit
Rob’s post on luck and wingnuttery reminded me of a Times editorial written four years ago by historian Jackson Lears on the subject of George W. Bush and his Providential sense of history. Lear
At some point within the manly space that is the wingnutosphere, it became fashionable to talk about things like war with Iraq or the Surge in terms of long odds. The odds may be against us, the argument conventionally goes, but it (whatever “it” may be) is worth a try. Recall that the Surge was […]
Erik makes an important point regarding the political backlash against the Dixie Chicks in his good commentary on J. Lester Feder’s fine article on the right wing shift of country music: But it&
Shorter Michael Medved: The sheer terror of potentially working with somebody who might find you sexually attractive totally justifies hating fags. And might I add, no fat chicks? This whole line of r