Two very long and image-laden posts that may be of interest to you: the first discusses how Frank Darabont establishes tone for the series in the opening scene of AMC’s The Walking Dead, while the second approaches the classroom difficulties created by racial stereotypes in Maus and American Born Chinese. I apologize for not posting […]
Month: January 2011
Ok, so let’s assume that Mubarak takes the easy way out and heads for healthier climes. What explains the difference between the failure of the Green Revolution and the success of the Egyptian
Andrew Bacevich: Like concentric security barriers arrayed around the Pentagon, these four factors — institutional self-interest, strategic inertia, cultural dissonance, and misremembered histor
As expected, Vinson struck down the mandate, and also argued that it couldn’t be severed. My initial thoughts are up on TAPPED. The short version is that it probably doesn’t mean much but having a judge argue that the entire ACA is unconstitutional is worthy of notice.
To discuss what “we” should do about “our” Egypt problem. The good folks at Commentary are in ecstasy. What exactly do these people have to do to discredit themselves? Is it ev
I, for one, am pretty surprised that people who thought that committing several years of substantial guaranteed money to the decomposing corpses of Luis Castillo and Mo Vaughn was a worthy use of reso
Very much worth reading, of course. Meanwhile, my favorite bit from the recent New York profile — even better than when Peretz claims that Obama lacks his sense of complexity and nuance in foreign policy — which I’d like to think is dry wit: For Israel, Peretz believes in a two-state solution. But this is […]
Surprisingly, yes — buh-bye to one of the not-Hindrockets. With the caveat that one guesses that the problem was not the bigotry per se so much as the bigotry that conflicted with the interests
Steve Kroft asked Julian Assange a lot of great questions tonight. Assange had some impressive, polished answers. The interview was so long that you have to watch it in two different clips. Here’
Batman, Spiderman, McNulty and now Superman are all British guys. What happened to America having American heroes for America?
From Voice of America: Sudanese police clashed with students Sunday as anti-government protests broke out in the capital, Khartoum. Hundreds of students took part in the protests, shouting slogans tha