When I was teaching The Selling of the President 1968, I sent McGinniss an email asking if I could ask him questions. He responded that he’d be more than happy to answer any I had, as well as an
Jennifer Schuessler has a terrific article on the Colin McGinn case, putting it into the context of gender discrimination in the field more broadly. First, more detail on what McGinn did: But Benjamin
As I’ve argued before, D.C. v. Heller was actually a modest opinion, and the federal government and most states and localities have enacted far less gun control legislation that the case’s
Roger Ailes has died. Ailes’s gifts to the American public included Richard Nixon’s presidency and Fox News: indeed it’s fair to say that the ascension of Donald Trump was the culm
Here is a pretty cool map of precinct-level support in three Seattle municipal races from last month: mayoral (Ed Murray v incumbent Mike McGinn), one city council seat (socialist Kshama Sawant again
This came up in a thread last week, and deserves its own post/thread. One of the more stunning upsets in this year’s election was the election of Kshama Sawant, who identifies as a Socialist, over l
The reviews for John Roberts’s performance in striking down the Voting Rights Act keep coming! The decision cutting the heart out of the Voting Rights Act was also 5-to-4, but this time along mo
Paul links below to a post in which Colin McGinn becomes the latest affluent white guy to discover that if women are being excluded from certain jobs it’s their fault. But perhaps even more rema