Any “system” (1) only works when a critical mass of people want it to work; (2) is going to reflect the underlying currents and divisions among the population. Our system was broken as soon as the
In a grim coincidence given the news of the day, the Washington Post has a story today about how assault rifles like the AR-15 destroy human bodies much more efficiently than ordinary handguns: Read t
Greg Sargent has a good piece in the Post thinking through what it means for Michigan to overturn its right to work law. Specifically, what does this signal about the current Democratic Party? We had
Parker Molloy has a useful roundup of the astonishingly bad work from the nation’s top-tier pundits as the announced that they were buying 25 units of Glengarry Highlands from George W. Bush. Ri
This is the grave of Hoke Smith. Born in 1855 in Newton, North Carolina Michael Hoke Smith grew up pretty wealthy. His father was the president of Catawba College and then became a professor at the Un
So for the second time this year, we’ll be seeing the final season of one of the very greatest shows in the history of the medium. Make sure to hyper-decant your wine! I suspect Game of Thrones
Two of 159 entries have a surviving potential NCAA Men’s Tourney champion (both UConn). 19 brackets have one Final Four team, and one bracket has two (San Diego State and UConn). I don’t h
This is a post about how things can fall apart quite quickly. I’ve got nothing systematic to say here; I’m just noting some impressions about a series of events that are either unconnected