When I saw this Guardian piece about Saif al-Islam Gadhafi's PhD thesis on global democratization from LSE, I thought David Held's 'Saif as tragic Shakespearean figure' narrative came across as more than a little self-serving and naive. But that did not in any way prepare...
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Ellis Goldberg, a bona fide expert of Egyptian politics (and UW Political Science professor) happens to be in Cairo at the moment and has started blogging about the evolving situation..
RIP. A week late, but she's apparently not known enough here to make this newsworthy--still nothing from the New York Times. My entry point into classical Japanese cinema (non-Kurusawa) was.
Count me as someone not particularly troubled by the ad, for reasons well covered by Yglesias, Zagloff, and Theda Skocpol (!). Should I dare to turn on my teevee here in Ohio, I'm treated to about 72 political ads per hour, many of which traffic...
Just adding a couple of thoughts to Rob and Scott's comments on the Yglesias post on the absurd anti-incentives for political scientists to engage in public intellectual work. First of.
I have a weird sort of idea that I should somehow avoid letting my snark:serious post ratio exceed 1:1, so I've been feeling mildly guilty about this little indulgence with.
David Boaz of the CATO institute published an article last week about the relationship of the libertarian vision of freedom with the (American) past. I presume he meant it to serve as a corrective to the good deal of libertarian-flavored rhetoric embracing the American jeremiad...
I haven't glanced at CNN for months, but at the gym today I clicked over to CNN to see what they were saying about Stevens and the upcoming Supreme Court.
One curious line of reasoning used by many who defend appalling exercises like Confederate History month is to attempt to muddy the waters by observing that Lincoln, the Republicans, or.
When this blog was launched nearly six long years ago, it was a Seattle-based blog, as all three 'founders' were graduate students in the political science department at the University of Washington. Shortly thereafter my two founding co-bloggers headed east to take tenure track positions...
Like any good traitorous socialist lefty, I am supposed to treat European culture and politics as decidedly superior to the American alternative. And I often do! But on the subject.
Glenn Greenwald has a nice catch here, on Matt Welch's egregious hackery. Calling a document traditionally labeled a report a report 'lying' is pretty rich, but the larger issue is,.