Norman Podhoretz has always been classy. Classy enough, in the not-too-distant-past, to earn publication in Harpers: Podhoretz penned a meandering essay in Harper’s in 1977 titled “The Culture of Appeasement” which likened antiwar sentiment in post-Vietnam America to the wariness of war in Britain after World War I, and then linked the latter to a […]
Month: May 2015
Michael “Step Right Up and Buy Your Million Dollar Law Degree” Simkovic is apparently planning to dedicate his career to defending every single law school practice, including something I w
Lindsey Graham is a very smart man: “Everything that starts with ‘Al’ in the Middle East is bad news,” Graham said at a dinner in Boston on Monday with the American Israel Publ
It’s like, how much more James Dolan could this be? Isiah Thomas is coming back to Madison Square Garden, but this time he’s not going to ruin the Knicks. At least not yet. James Dolan re-hired Thomas to be the president and a part-owner of the New York Liberty, the New York WNBA team. The […]
I’m not sure where Amy Schumer can go from here. “12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer” is pure brilliance.
It’s the only reasonable explanation for the administration’s basically fascistic attempt to stop the federal government from shoveling tens of billions of dollars into the coffers of univ
I’m sure the KGB would like to take credit for liberation theology, planning the world’s rebellions against capitalist exploitation from the Kremlin, but no one should take the claim of an ex-KGB agent on this issue seriously at all. Liberation theology is a complex movement that had many roots, including the deep injustices faced by […]
Cheyenne women with mattresses they made, Federal Emergency Relief Administration project, 1940 I was a bit skeptical about reviewing Jason Scott Smith’s new overview of the New Deal because it
So, if I understand correctly, we can conclude that the hockey gods are New Democrats? Watching the game while following the election returns online reminded me of the nearly surreal sequence in Dryde
I had no idea that Tex Logan, noted fiddler for Bill Monroe, was also an engineer who worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. Dead at 87.
I’m sure that plunging ahead with fracking will have no unintended consequences or deleterious effects on the environment. Going forward with the procedure without proper testing, oversight, or
Dave Zirin has an excellent essay about reconsidering The Wire in the wake of the police murdering Freddie Gray. And he’s right–one thing missing from the show is how the police are active