Ira Katznelson's recent book is a tour de force, a lucid account of an important historical phenomenon which incorporates the insights of historical institutionalist analysis without bogging down in jargon. The book--which begins with a discussion of LBJ's "To Fulfill These Rights" speech--consists largely of...
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Frequent contributor gmack sent me a link to this bit of self-parody, which is apparently part of a "make Steve Forbes' economic theories look rational by comparison" campaign. Fortunately for.
Oh, sure, George W. Bush may have singlehandedly thwarted the terrifying numerologically determined impending attack from Iran by personally throwing the Bill of Rights and the United States Code into.
Apparently, this Bernard Lewis article about the horror Iran was going to unleash on 8/22--whose only distinction to rational people was managing to look foolish even by the standards of the Wall Street Journal's op-ed pages--was deemed to be worthy of major coverage at Trainwreck...
In the comments to a post about some ev-psych wankery at the Freakonomics blog, Belle Waring has uncovered someone taking "Nice Guy" self-pity to quite remarkable depths. A taste (and.
In light of today's "closing the barn door after thieves have stolen your livestock, burned down the barn, killed your family, and absconded with a trillion dollars" revelations by the.
Ugh:The idea is that when they break up the drug ring, the dealers forfeit the suitcases full of money found in their closet next to the kilo of coke. The standard for forfeiture is that the government must establish a 'substantial connection' between the money...
Martha Nussbaum's review of Harvey Mansfield's Manliness is the most devastating critique of the philosophical pretensions of a Strauss disciple since...Nussbaum's evisceration of The Closing of the American Mind. (I'm.
A few points on Boston Massacre II: The Red Sox made two crucial moves that 1)I heartily supported at the time, and 2)have, in retrospect, turned out to be bad-to-disastrous..
In his review of an interesting-looking new LBJ biography, Alan Brinkley writes:Woods challenges as well a critical element of Caro’s extraordinary portrait of Texas politics in the second volume of his Johnson biography, “Means of Ascent.” Johnson, then a congressman, was first elected to the...
Shorter various blogospheric wingnuts: the government's appalling lack of racism gives people no recourse but to take racism into their own hands....UDPATE: via Roy, I see that Glenn Reynolds concurs.
Admittedly, I can't oppose to making fun of Slappy Rodriguez for hitting into yet another inning-ending double play with Beckett in the ropes. It should not be forgotten, however, that.