There’s a recent comment that reminds me of a deplorable line of argument I’ve seen repeatedly but don’t I’ve ever addressed: Nobody has universal healthcare. Not even after it’s fully implemented will it be honestly “universal”. Obama handed corporations billions of dollars in enforced customers that hopefully will be better than having no healthcare at […]
Month: November 2012
I’m not sure how seriously they’re taking the appeal, but it’s still cause for concern. In light of Oregon v. Smith, the argument that the contraceptive mandate violates the First Am
On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt speaks with Elizabeth Tsurkov about Operation Pillar of Defense:
Interesting — after re-election we have a very different Obama that was at least formally willing to give away the store in 2011: Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner presented the House speaker, John A. Boehner, a detailed proposal on Thursday to avert the year-end fiscal crisis with $1.6 trillion in tax increases over 10 years, […]
Case Western Reserve Law School Dean Larry Mitchell had an op ed in the Times this morning about why certain unnamed “sensationalist” critics of American legal education are being sensatio
In my latest at the Diplomat I call for a more standardized vocabulary of naval affairs: Navies do a poor job of developing such a nomenclature, in part because they have good reasons to avoid standar
In a further refinement of the power attributed to the BULLY PULPIT, we are informed by Ben smith that the president’s ability to send emails to his supporters is not merely a powerful tool, it is his most powerful tool. Surely, John Boehner is quaking in his boots about the prospect that a weapon of […]
Mr. Beck — I can perfectly understand your goal to be perceived as pissing off liberals — it’s a good living in your position. However, your latest submission must be rejected, bec
An update, a question, and a prompt walked into a blog… First, I have updated the LGM “Who Are We?” page to include (in one convenient place!) much of what’s available on the s
A couple follow-ups to my post about Lincoln and Obama are in order, given the comments. First, Corey Robin makes a good point: Scott, you refer to “people who think that Barack Obama is precisely comparable to Abraham Lincoln and the PPACA precisely comparable to the 13th Amendment.” And you say, “Granted, I don’t believe […]
It’s probably not worth adding to Scott’s corrective observations on Connor Kilpatrick’s Jacobin post, but since I’m currently working on a manuscript about Lincoln in American
Earlier in the quarter, I introduced my students to the anything-that’s-longer-than-it-is-wide mode of psychoanalytic criticism. Not very sophisticated, I know, but it helps explain the historic