I endorse Erik's post, but to add a few points: Arguments that third parties are potentially useful vehicles for political transformation confuse cause and effect. Given American electoral rules, third parties generally reflect new issues that cause parties to realign, but they don't cause the...
Month: July 2011
In the comments to the post on moving American politics to the left, a number of people have talked about the value of 3rd parties in turning the main 2.
Yglesias correctly notes the real way to move American politics to the left: If you want to move US public policy to the left, what you have to do is.
Since writing at LGM, I’ve focused pretty heavily on labor issues over my other field of expertise—environmental issues. There’s a good reason for that and there's a less good reason. The good reason is that there’s a bigger niche to fill in covering the labor...
Jennifer Rubin didn't have such a good weekend. As a general rule, it's pretty easy not to use the murder of ninety-three Norwegians to shill for the defense industry. For.
Bill James once noted that the reason for doing research is to avoid paying the price for believing things that aren't true. The apparently sincere belief of Obama and his.
Shorter Jerusalem Post: Just because the killer in Norway wasn't a Muslim shouldn't distract us from the important project of hating Muslims. There is no way that a sentence that starts with "While there is absolutely no justification for the sort of heinous act perpetrated...
Maybe he could call it the Hot Soup party. And I'm pretty sure I'd rather be governed by Lady Gaga than Thomas Freidman (not to mention Rick Perry, who apparently.
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) Good age for baseball players, bad age for music icons.
Jeebus. It should go without saying that if you're interested in the latest updates on the situation in Oslo, you shouldn't be here. And Jeebus. It's one thing for nutcase wingnut bloggers to decide Oslo is the latest front in their jihado-crusader fantasy, quite another...
A lot of interesting labor stories out there right now: 1. Sarah Jaffe has an excellent piece on unemployment at Alternet. Unlike all too many (almost all) reports on the.
I mean literally read them when giving a "talk." This practice gives unfortunate credence to Alfred North Whitehead's remark that the university has been obsolete since the invention of the.