One of the few things about American politics making me happy in the last couple of years is that the charter scam has been fully exposed for the union-busting, profit-taking, public institution-destr
This is the grave of Hassan Toufanian. I don’t know too much about Toufanian. But I was wandering a cemetery looking for someone else and boy did that grave stone look interesting. I’m cer
Good piece by Yglesias about how while the Weekly Standard is being euthanized for the wrong reason it represents a highly pernicious strain of thought in its own right: The people who control the com
Since I don’t think it’s been discussed much here and seems to have flown under the radar a bit, let’s talk about the North Carolina Supreme Court election. I heard about this race f
Innuendo Studios has a series of six videos called “Why Are You So Angry?” The whole series is fascinating, but much of it is focused on GamerGate, a maddeningly complex and confusing sk
I assigned one of my classes this long August 2018 Nathaniel Rich essay from the New York Times Magazine about how the world almost took climate change seriously and how that didn’t happen. And
It’s a populist worker’s party now: Mick Mulvaney struck a jovial tone as he introduced the political appointees who would run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. One was nicknamed D
Donald Trump has broken the law flagrantly and constantly for his entire adult life, because he’s always been a hyper-privileged man with no sense of moral restraint, and that’s just what