Month: September 2018
This is the longform dissection of Kavanaugh’s literally impeachable testimony that Kavanaugh deserves: Not quite. The existence of a “he said, she said” does not mean it’s impossible to f
There are two ways of looking at the Pats not just being 1-2 but being 1-2 after a fairly narrow win against a dreadful-looking Texans team and thorough ass-kickings by the Jags and Lions. This is the
The answer is me! I am speaking today at 1 at the Baltimore Book Festival, thanks to Red Emma’s inviting me to speak as part of their Radical Bookfair Pavilion. Given that I am a neoliberal sell
Waiter! There is a black fly in the Chardonnay! Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned high schoolers, as the toxic fight over confirming Brett Kavanaugh to replace him on the court conti
Since Paul has already dealt with Sully, let’s look at the argument dressed up in a slightly nicer suit by Bret Stephens. He starts out with the obligatory “Blasey Ford was credible”
And what I want to do is talk about Donald Trump’s apartment which looks like what would happen if Liberace’s Vegas home had a baby with a Russian bordello. And a quick reminder tha
Last week the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here), discussed how direct job creation programs built a place for themselves within the New Deal’s vi
Malka Older is an academic, a humanitarian worker, and a science fiction writer. We’ll be talking about her work in the next Political History of the Future entry, but yesterday on her twitter f
- A cure for Barnum-Mencken Syndrome
- The Financial War V: That’s a Wrap
- Barnum-Mencken Syndrome
- Triggered snowflake shuts down space because his ego isn’t safe there
- Politicizing Vaccines
- Did COP27 Accomplish Anything?
- Hoist on an orange petard
- Bowl Mania
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,257
- Vox populi, Vox dei