Month: September 2011

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Bad Columns Imitate Bad Movies

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On September 26, 2011
As others have already pointed out, Matt Miller’s latest column will be the worst argument in favor of a third party until whichever of he or Tom Freidman submits the same column next week.   What’s striking about this one, as Matt says, is that the radical centrist policies he deems impossible under the current system […]
Joel Garreau is one of the most important popular writers about urbanism over the past two decades. His influential book, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, described the development of so-called Edge Cities, far suburbs largely disconnected from the central city that arise out of rural environments providing all the amenities of the central […]

The Deal that Lost the West?

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In Robert Farley
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On September 24, 2011
I think that Mike Scioscia is a pretty good manager, and that he’s done about as well as he could with the team that he has in LA.  However, it bears notice that Mike Napoli is about five games better than Jeff Mathis this year, and that Napoli is playing for the Rangers instead of […]

Oscar Handlin, RIP

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On September 24, 2011

I don’t often talk about individual historians because most of you won’t care, but it’s worth noting the death of Oscar Handlin, a historian who did more than anyone to create the fi

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