One major reason I always strongly opposed the Iraq war is that my graduate training entailed some study of the difficulties of state-building. Building stable states, let alone liberal democracies, is very difficult, and usually involves alliances with other powerful actors to help raise revenues...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Please never try to write satire in another voice ever again. I've been thinking for a while at picking some of the Pulitzer-winning columns from 1999 at random and seeing.
Of the innumerable jaw-dropping feats of illogic performed by American "pro-lifers," I've always been amused by the fact that to the forced pregnancy lobby women are simultaneously routinely getting abortions.
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: It's unconscionable that the government would provide health assistance to families making the austounding sum of $45,000 a year. They'll probably just use it to buy more ivory backscratchers!
I heard from more than one Yankee fan who was happy that they avoided the Angels. Somehow, past history or no past history, I'm guessing they don't believe that anymore..
Henry Farrell notes a contradiction in Brooks's embarrassingly belated realization that George W. Bush is not, in fact, a Burke/Oakeshott conservative. My favorite example from the Brooks archives, however, has.
George M. Steinbrenner is principal owner of the New York Yankees. It's not just the announcers who can see only one possible explanation for Greatest Pitcher In Known Human History Joba Chamberlain giving up a run:But with his team teetering on the brink of a...
I missed much of today's rare instance of justice on Earth at various parental visitation and birthday party related programed activities. But I left dinner to hear descriptions of the.
The major Republican candidates have all endorsed Bush's appalling veto of S-CHIP. If the Democratic candidate can't repeatedly hammer his or her opponent throughout the campaign for this, they don't.
I certainly agree with Yglesias that "It would be a big, big problem for Giuliani's general election campaign to have any of the major cultural conservative institutions backing a third party candidate. It's generally very difficult to win when you have a spoiler trying to...
Shorter Verbatim Daily Conservative, in re: one of the corporations that Made Milwaukee Famous sponsoring the Folsom Street Fair: "They’re still crappy beer, now they’re crappy gay beer." Oh noes!.
The war on parody proceeds at full speed.UPDATE by bean: . . . and look who's laughing.