Andrew Delbanco has a largely excellent review of the new books by Diane Ravitch and Michelle Rhee in the latest New York Review of Books. Essentially, the two come across in their books as you'd expect. Ravitch is passionate in her defense of teacher unions,...
Month: September 2013
Do you ever wonder what your LGM writers do on Friday evenings, scouring the internet to entertain you? Well this, your daily World War II musical artifact, is pretty much.
Thoughts I wish I had expressed: It didn’t last. Dexter would never again rise to that level [second season] of quality, and the one time it commanded as much critical and.
Jamelle Bouie is making sense: But black children aren’t the only ones with unusual names. It’s not hard to find white kids with names like Braelyn and Declyn. And while it’s tempting to chalk this up to poverty—in the Reddit thread, there was wide agreement...
Shorter Republican Party: “Religious Freedom=Christians Can Disregard Whatever Laws They Don’t Like”
The Republican platform of allowing Christians to disregard whatever laws they personally find disagreeable continues.
In a previous thread, a few commenters discussed the merits of the show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." I'm a fan of the show, myself, but apparently not everyone is..
Sorry for the two Chait links in a row, but this one on the House GOP savagely cutting food stamps while increasing agricultural subsidies that redistribute wealth upward in multiple respects is essential. Responding to the assertion by an NRO writer that "[t]he conservative war...
In 2010, Warren Buffett critiqued the Senate version of the ACA from the quasi-left, arguing that it was preferable to the status quo but a bill that did more to.
Not sure what the Koch Brothers are getting at in this anti-Obamacare ad portraying Uncle Sam as a rapist. Given that he seems be to using the same transvaginal ultrasounds.
About a month ago I had the opportunity to sit down with Brian Frye, professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law and producer of the documentary Our Nixon. Here's the video: And here's the audio. Profuse apologies for the poor audio quality, for...
Gram Parsons died 40 years ago today, at the age of 26. An brief appreciation, with links to six other songs.
César Díaz's essay on the difficulties of growing up in Brownsville and then going off to college from a poor family and then living in white Austin is your read.