This theme has certainly cropped up here at LGM from time to time, generally with reference to aesthetic affairs. It applies to politics, too, as this excellent post from Rich Yeselson persuasively argues.
Month: February 2012
With respect to how Kennedy is likely to rule on the Prop 8 case, a few additional points. First, in response to Murc here, I should make it clear what.
I confess to having paid almost no attention to the GOP "race," in part because my two favorite prognosticators of such things have been saying for quite some time that.
The New York Times' Disunion series continues to be absolutely fantastic, even if it doesn't get the publicity it did when the series started. And I've been reading Kevin Levin's wonderful blog Civil War Memory for years. So it makes perfect sense that Levin would...
You know the dilemma, which we may call the Polanski Problem -- what do you do when you find out that a gifted artist who has done a lot of.
This post serves as introduction for a new series of posts: Seapower in Culture. Inspired in part by Alyssa Rosenberg's work at the Center for American Progress, but also by a.
(Since everyone's complaining about Rob's Whitney Houston post, I thought I'd write a proper one.) Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1985 with her self-titled LP which had four number one hit singles on it, including "The Greatest Love of All," "You Give...
I was doing some rather pointless research on Chester A. Arthur this morning. On his Wikipedia page, I found this: William Arthur's frequent moves would later form the basis for.
This ain't good: A few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs.
Read about the new crime wave sweeping America's tubas: BELL, Calif. — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on all the storage lockers and ripped two doors off their frames. But they didn’t touch...
Shorter Tom Maguire: "If you arbitrarily define government programs that benefit you as not being part of the "safety net," then people who complain about government spending while benefiting from.
In a great catch by a commenter, we find Mr. Glenn Harlan Reynolds endorsing Megan McArdle's "Obama caved to the Bishops!" post based on the original argument made in its.