My colleague can hardly be blamed for missing the real pinnacle of Bobo's recent column--the thing was really a cornucopia of insipidity. But try to imagine that anybody would write this: If you look at the big Kerry donors, you realize that the days of...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Matthew Yglesias makes a crucial point that isn't made often enough: In other words, a second Bush term will not merely continue down the current unsustainable course -- it will.
For me, one of the most difficult political questions is the ethics of outing for political purposes. It presents a conflict between two important principles: 1)the the profound injustice of.
I'm sure our regular readers (if any) were looking forward to receiving the kind of in-depth, Geertzian interpretive analysis that only a long-time New York resident of two weeks could provide. With the exception of the pro-choice rally on Saturday, however, I basically avoided the...
I must argue that my colleague, as well as the increasingly shrill Andrew Sullivan, have reached the right conclusion about the proposed constitutional amendments in the GOP platform for the wrong.
Hopefully you've been reading Balkanization, which has added commentary from two of the best constitutional scholars currently writing--Mark Graber and Mark Tushnet--to already excellent blog. (I wish they would come on.
The letter Economist editor Clive Crook wrote to Brad DeLong makes use of a ploy that, while a familiar tactic of wingnut hacks, is particularly dismaying coming from an intelligent conservative: He sought allies throughout for the war in Iraq, and built the biggest coalition he could....
Lindsay Beyerstein draws our attention to a truly dismaying attempt to Johnny Cash as a symbol for Republican politics. Appalling. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten.
When I was in Montreal on Wednesday, two justices were appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court. Media coverage has focused on the fact that 1)the Canadian court now has an apparently.
In a coup for the blogosphere, fafblog obtains a rare interview with the President.
I was planning about blogging about this, as I took Harper's to read on the plane to Montreal and was dismayed to see that the Lapham essay was extra-long, hence taking.
Roy Edroso recently did a nice job skewering this silly argument, which Prof. InstaHack liked so much he repeated it again today. Said the sage of Knoxville: Lyndon Baines Johnson.