I think Steve M.'s analysis of the problems with defenses of Paterson's senate appointment are very astute. One line of argument goes that Gillibrand was a strong choice for 2010 because a more progressive candidate would have their support too localized in New York to...
Month: January 2009
Michael Rubin asks, with an evidently straight face:I won't get into the substance of Obama's comments—others are doing that across the web—but I am curious whether the choice of al-Arabiya.
Check out Progressive Realist, a new blog bringing together a number of progressive foreign policy writers (including yours truly). Here's the About; the project has been brought together by Robert.
Obama is apparently urging House Dems to strip birth control funding from the stimulus bill. While this would be wrong on the merits, as Matt says what's even worse is that the Dems seem to be getting absolutely nothing in return. Indeed, Obama should be...
Jacob Levy is hosting a crookedtimber style book symposium on Nancy Rosenblum's new book, On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship. The first several posts.
Yglesias:But in some ways the most interesting thing about the Spanish Flu is the extent to which its occurrence has been purged from our historical memory despite the fact that.
I'm not taking a position on whether or not the coach should have been fired, but I do have to wonder what a "Christlike" margin of victory would have been:The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired...
Six of the sweetest words in the English language: "This is William Kristol's last column." Although it will really limit public discourse in this country now that Kristol's thoroughly uninteresting.
NY politics maven Julia has more. If I read her correctly, although my framing was more negative (and my title may have -- like some others -- implied that I.
This isn't exactly a revelation, but Ron Rosenbaum inexplicably fails to include the song that is arguably BJ's five-minute shite-load, "We Didn't Start the Fire." When I teach historiography and methods every other year, I typically devote about ten minutes on the first day to...
This came crawling across my Facebook news feed this morning. It was not an ironic gesture. I have no further comment, except to note that Krauthammer's fan club exceeds Kristol's.
Stephen Walt proposes an opening class:By a "classic work," I mean a book or article that is a genuine "must-read" in the field when it is published, and that retains.