In 2014, I completed two books. Out of Sight is coming out in June and Empire of Timber is probably being published in March 2016 if not a touch earlier. So what to do in 2015? I suppose I should just watch baseball for the...
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The audio from oral arguments in King v. Burwell that should have been streamed in real time are now up. As Irin Carmon said on Twitter, among other things it's.
The great documentarian has died.
He wouldn't dream of allowing anyone to lose their health insurance, Scout's Honor! Negotiating the various perils of the "card says Moops!" and "Moops invaded Spain" arguments, Ross Douthat ends starts off in the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ camp. On the way, he throws out a major howler:...
On March 6, 1886, the Great Southwest Strike began, marking the start of a year of worker revolt against the exploitation of Gilded Age capitalism. Over 200,000 railroad workers went.
If you've been following him on twitter, you've waiting for this, which is excellent. No quotes, just read the whole damn thing. Have a stiff drink at the ready. As.
Perhaps the fact that the people of Chicago hate him is unnerving Rahm Emanuel. Or maybe he's just an awful human being.
I was going to try and write a proper review of Greil Marcus' new book The History of Rock N' Roll in Ten Songs for the blog. But I found.
After a long hiatus to finish the two books, I have begun updating my historical image blog again. I just put up a set of images on immigration. I like.
Remember when Republicans were totally going to be the Party of Ideas (TM) because a small group of conservative intellectuals with little discernible influence on Republican legislators thought that George W. Bush-style supply side politics should be supplemented by some feints towards the middle class?...
Were yesterday's oral arguments. When people say that having cameras in the courtroom would undermine the solemn seriousity of Supreme Court oral arguments I never have any idea what the.
My take on yesterday's oral argument is up. The first main point is that unlike many smart observers I'm not really much more optimistic than I was yesterday. And second,.