Nader does have a remarkable ability to synthesize every idiotic argument for a third party into one complete package. At this point, it seems worth noting again that electing George W. Bush wasn't an unfortunate byproduct of his 2000 campaign; it was its central goal....
Month: October 2011
Henry Farrell puts out the call for suggestions/donations for the Occupy Wall Street library. I can't argue with his primary suggestion, Hacker and Pierson's Winner-Take-All Politics, which does an excellent.
I don't understand this: Thus we get the Boston Red Sox's John Henry, champion of data-driven rational decision-making, dumping a two-time championship manager because a team projected to win 94.
Allow me to join Paul and Scott in making this a day dedicated to higher education here at LGM. Rick Scott opens the logical next front in the conservative war on the liberal arts: Scott said Monday that he hopes to shift more funding to...
Shorter Marc Thiessen: "Eric Holder is insufficiently committed to authoritarianism and arbitrary torture." This being Thiessen, the column is not only grotesquely immoral but contains (race-baiting!) howlers as well: This.
What Yglesias said: It’s interesting to me how heavily ideology shapes people’s narratives about their own lives rather than the reverse. After all, can one really credibly say that the.
University of Phoenix admissions exec literally orders somebody killed.
Any critique of the set of powerful social institutions that work together to create contemporary American legal education must be as it were political all the way down. (Few things.
I'm so old I remember when Josh Trevino was considered some sort of intellectual. But don't kid yourself, this 53% thing will be the hottest thing since the Victory Caucus..
Look. Walter Russell Mead is correct to note that Columbus Day, at its origins, owes almost nothing to Christopher Columbus himself (though I'm modestly surprised that Mead didn't use the occasion to show us how Columbus Day has everything to do with Al Gore being...
I will point out that this take on the extremely important Netflix issue is correct. It's pretty clear why Netflix customers were upset and puzzled about how the move even.
Read of the day is John Sullivan's piece on African-Americans leaving northern cities and moving to southern suburbs, which might sound like a return to southern roots except with middle-class.