This is the grave of James Angleton. Born in 1917 in Boise, James Jesus Angleton (his parents really gave him the middle name of Jesus? Which is common enough in Latin America, but not in early 20th century Idaho), his father was a military man...
Month: June 2018
One obvious subtext in the opinions in Masterpiece Cakeshop was the question of the relevance of Donald Trump's repeated racist statements about his proposed travel ban to its constitutionality: Thomas.
A CEO presidential candidate is a really bad idea. Fortunately, if Howard Schultz decides to run for the Democratic nomination he'll do about as well as Lincoln Chafee: WELL, I.
I've been spending the afternoon in a fun Twitter fight with the one and only John Podhoretz, author of the brilliant book pictured above and who tried to pick on me. Luckily, I enjoy punching back. I love being called an academic elite by a...
Hmmmm..... State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Tuesday cited the D-Day invasion during an answer about the current state of US-German relations. "We have a.
Lester Maddox became governor of Georgia after threatening black students with violence if they tried to eat at his restaurant. Well, the GOP is taking over that mantle and it's.
Since it was suggested that it might be of interest to readers here, I have a review at Strange Horizons discussing Netflix's remake of Lost in Space, released in mid-April. In that sense, at least, Netflix's latest reboot of the Lost in Space concept demonstrates some good...
The New Deal Democrats maintained power only because of their base of conservative, segregationist southerners. LBJ temporarily smashed the conservative coalition, but by finally putting the Democratic Party behind civil.
The fascists at ICE clearly needed to send a solid 200 person army with air support in order to arrest some undocumented immigrants at a couple of Ohio garden stores..
On this latest primary day, I have a piece for Reuters summarizing the arguments Dave and I made recently about how awful the two-top primary system our state regrettably pioneered is. It's possible that Democratic voters will be effectively disenfranchised in 3 critical California general...
I was already blaming ketchup for everything wrong with America, but now here's some evidence, as we have a Smithsonian piece on how ketchup is emblematic of the entire American.
Good piece by Jia Tolentino on the nation's endless parade of grifters and con artists: This year, the last week in May marked the beginning of grifter season: the wind.