David Nieporent would like to instruct feminists that they should not worry their pretty little heads about such trivialities as "reinforcing the sexist stereotypes that have contributed to the gross underrepresentation in public office": It used to be said that women couldn’t be involved in...
Month: April 2013
It's a good thing the Chinese don't eat fish because this would be a problem: However, over the past few years, fishery resources in the river have witnessed a severe.
Today, on the implications of the "don't speak ill of the (recently) dead" rule: But the key point is this: those who admire the deceased public figure (and their politics).
A federal judge has persuasively ruled that the Obama administration's disgraceful decision to refuse over-the-counter access to emergency contraception for young women under 18 was illegal. The decimation of the administration's farcical invocation of 11-year-olds is particularly strong, but the entire opinion is well-constructed and...
On April 8, 1952, President Harry Truman nationalized the steel industry in order to forestall a strike scheduled the next day that would have shut down steel production during the.
My latest feature at the Diplomat expresses some skepticism about the potential for accidental war on the Korean Peninsula: Again, few wars happen by accident; most take place because policymakers.
R.I.P. ...[Erik] In case you need a whole soundtrack of anti-Thatcher songs. [DB]: even more music, with analysis. I think I'd rather be in the UK for this coverage, as it promises to be somewhat more balanced than here.
First-rate reporting by Alana Semuels. Read the whole etc., but the bottom line as a teaser: The relentless drive for efficiency at U.S. companies has created a new harshness in.
To celebrate what's going to be a very Mad Men week here -- at least two posts by me and a podcast starring an illustrious cast of thousands -- I.
The great documentarian is no more.
Recommending a Ross Douthat column is like seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker. You know that it is probably impossible, but theoretically one could emerge once every century. Amazingly, today is the.
I really like the athletic director who comes on at 1:20 of yesterday's SNL skit: I don't want to be unduly optimistic -- if American history has taught us anything,.