I'm very happy to announce that I'll be writing some political essays on Game of Thrones for Salon.com. My first essay is on the topic of a just ruler - what does a just ruler look like? What do they do about justice and punishment,...
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Via Sean McElwee, this is remarkable: Sure, this is the most conservative court since 1937, and sure its decisions tip well to the right. But if you are the most.
The fact that Henry Kissinger continues to not only be given a pass for his many crimes but is feted as the elder statesmen of American foreign policy on the.
As this essay suggests, the Three-Fifths Compromise was a terrible deal for the North from the very beginning and would establish that slaveholders would use their slaves to make money and go the mat to enforce the return of their property, but then would say...
It's official! If the thinking is to make Sam Bradford look like much less of a first-round bust in comparison, I'd have to say mission accomplished: Tebow now will join.
Monsanto. Everyone's favorite chemical corporation. This is the first national advertisement ever placed by Monsanto, a 1939 campaign in Fortune. Good times.
This is a pretty intense story about how Phil Ochs was caught up in the repression of artists and leftists in Latin America in the early 1970s and how closely he came to being disappeared in Bolivia like many other leftists of the time.
I dunno, but remainder tables certainly are Shorter Maureen Dowd: "I have a brand new, entirely original SCORCHING HOT TAKE: all Democratic women are men, and all Democratic men are.
Republicans are paying back their megadonors: The House on Wednesday with little fanfare passed legislation that would protect major donors like the Koch brothers and Tom Steyer from having to.
I really object to this analysis that calls Sullivan's Travels "reactionary" toward the poor and poverty. Evidently the writer actually wanted to see "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" or that film Sullivan shows at the movie's beginning about capital and labor fighting and dying on...
I saw Noah Baumbach's While We're Young and found this Molly Lambert piece on the film really good. Like her, I feel myself in this sort of time warp where.
Choose the one best answer: At American institutions of higher learning, academic scholarships are: (a) Need-based (b) Merit-based (c) Raffle-based (d) Require dilithium crystals to achieve warp speed (e) All.