I'd like to add a couple more points about the K.C. Johnson post SEK linked below. First, it's worth noting Johnson makes no attempt to address the central point made about Riley's post -- namely, that listing dissertation titles isn't an argument (let alone a...
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Those who claim that we need a man like Lyndon Johnson today; that a new LBJ could handle the Senate through his own personality and politicking forget that the Republican.
It's like the ultimate Fred Hiatt op-ed. Any hack can scold voters for not supporting Pain Caucus policies that are as senseless in theory as they've been devastating in practice..
North Carolina constitutionally entrenches its ban on same-sex marriage and bans domestic partnerships. As Allison Kilkenny notes, all 11 former Confederate states have constitutional bans on same-sex marriage.
Geoffrey O'Brien has a great essay on silent films in the New York Review of Books. A very small selection: The seduction of silent cinema is the seduction of a.
Lisa Curtis has a provocative essay proclaiming that while she holds environmental values, she is very much not an environmentalist. Why? Because the environmental movement is dying and misguided and.
Erik has his metaphor off, according to KC Johnson: In an editor's note that could have doubled as a parody of political correctness, Liz McMillen "sincerely apologize[d] for the distress" that publication of Riley's post caused. McMillen claimed that Riley's sharply-written but seemingly factually accurate post...
Jonathan Tobin begins the deification of martyr Naomi Schaefer Riley. In saying this, Riley was blunt but transgressed no rules of journalism other than the need not to offend powerful.
Given the cover of the new Newsweek (which is nowhere to be found on its website) and the facts that I 1) have substantially updated the post and 2) am.
Jon Rauch has the latest argument that a Supreme Court decision striking down the PPACA would be Great News For Liberals. Alas, it's wrong on multiple levels. Alas, it's wrong on multiple levels. I remember more than a decade ago that in his (excellent) critique...
If you were looking for a reason to crawl inside a dark hole today, Maurice Sendak's death should do nicely. And if that doesn't work, read or listen to his.
To approach the question of principle in political leadership from yet another angle, in light of Biden's quasi-endorsement of same-sex marriage there's been a lot of speculation of what Obama.