At Democracy, Kevin Mattson revives the "decline of the public intellectuals" narrative to castigate historians for not enlightening the public sphere as they supposedly did during the vibrant post-war era, when Richard Hofstadter, C. Vann Woodward, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and other young historians "engaged in...
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Via Redbeard, I see that forth-rate novelist, global warming denialist, xenophobe, and Bush Administration scientific consultant Michael Crichton inserted a child rapist named after the New Republic's Michael Crowley (who.
"I was living in Madison, WI, which was not at the time a federal offense. Despite that, the Bush administration held me without charges and tortured me for three years..
Peter Boyle, R. I. P....Norbiz has the whole scene linked here.
Managed to acquire a copy of the Navy Professional Reading Program List. Here's a selection:Junior Enlisted:Lincoln on Leadership, Donald PhillipsEnder's Game, Orson Scott Card (!)Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein (!?!)The Kite.
Shorter Verbatim Althouse (in comments): "What you need to know is that numerous bloggers who hate me have posted telling people to go vote for TMV. Before that happened I.
Ted Nugent -- rock guitarist, walking phallus and self-parodying right-winger -- turns 58 today. He shares his birthday with the legendary Alvin York, who led a devastating attack on a nest of German machine-gunners during the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne in 1918; on more than...
Hadley Arkes, one of the pro-life movement's most prominent intellectuals, has an article in First Things about the upcoming "partial birth" abortion decision. It starts off strangely with the claim.
Today, I am sad to remind everyone, is the sixth anniversary of the grotesque and consequential Bush v. Gore decision, which was delivered in all its steaming feculence by five.
From Powerline:My view is that if winning means having a country in which Iraqis don't kill one another in large numbers, then we're unlikely to win any time soon. However, if winning means having a country no portion of which is controlled by those who...
Although I had been intending to ignore the passel of right-wingers with one actual moderate that comprised the Weblog Awards' "best centrist blog" category, I must shift course and heartily.
I acknowledge that there are good reasons not to support Al Gore in the '08 primaries, and the question is looking increasingly moot anyway. I would like to think, however,.