I heartily endorse Garry Wills's response to Roberto Unger. And the point about party leadership extends to both candidates. As I've said before, the even bigger error being made by the "Obamney" crowd is to assume that his relatively moderate record as governor of Massachusetts...
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On this date in 1947, President Harry S. Truman vetoed the odious Taft-Hartley Act, the most vile piece of labor legislation in American history. Sponsored by Robert Taft (R-OH) and.
This is the time when it seems obligatory for Supreme Court analysts to make predictions about how the Court will rule in the imminent health care ruling. Mine is the.
Yesterday at lunch time an unknown but apparently quite large number of graduates of George Washington's 2012 class got this email: (more…)
Oh for the love of god: Both took time to comment on a major donor's e-mail in which he suggested that university leaders study the way Stanford and Harvard Universities,.
The National Review finds an appropriate replacement for the Derb.
Tonight's entry in our tour of odd historical boxing videos continues with the glorious theme of cat boxing, this time from a bizarre short put out by General Motors in 1937. Some of this could actually be slightly disturbing to you so you are warned....
Last week a Boston law firm got a lot of publicity when it advertised an associate position with a $10,000 salary. A lot of people emailed me about it, which.
Robert Samuelson. As always with Samuelson, what's most impressive is the sheer laziness. Even though he's willing to just make stuff up, he can't come up with 5 reasons to.
We may not have gotten a ruling in the "fleeting expletives" case yesterday. But in the meantime, at least Dahlia Lithwick has a plan to rid us of the most obscene expletive of all: Last week, a Michigan state legislator was barred from speaking on...
More Gilded Age pugilism--except tonight it is boxing cats! The past is a strange place.
Bill Keller tries to show off some book larnin', with results that are predictably unpretty: Donohue’s response bypassed her arguments and focused on the fact that she sometimes cites Michel.