Corey Robin has more, and it's crucial reading: Like many critics of state coercion in America, Wolf seems to assume that political repression requires or entails national coordination and centralized direction from the feds. But as I argued in this piece in the Boston Review...
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Legal academia is very much on the defensive at the moment, which is all to the good. The mixture of outrage and pearl-clutching which greeted David Segal's latest entry in.
Very disappointing piece from Kevin Drum supporting Alan Haus' call for unions that only negotiate wages and nothing else. Haus, an employment lawyer, is packaging old-school company unionism in new.
...apparently not running again. He will be missed. He's the only prominent political figure I've ever had an actual conversation with, and he was just as whip-smart as you would expect.
A Ross Douthat column I agree with almost entirely. In particular, I agree that JFK deserves far more of the blame for Vietnam than he usually gets, and I don't.
Naomi Wolf has another conspiracy theory she wishes you to consider: In other words, for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of its chain of.
A reading from the Book of Comebacks, Verses 3-13 Hast thou seen my anointed, TEBOW For verily, there is none like him. Let the heathen rage, for my BLESSING is upon him, And I shall smite down those who mock him Hurling them from their...
Not that Christmas songs done jukebox-musical style for those who find American Idol a little too edgy sounds promising in any case, but this has the potential to be a.
Unfathomably terrible news for longtime friend of LGM James Joyner. Sincerest consolations to James and his family.
Again, I can't really blame the campaign journalists for pretending that the GOP nomination race is still a going concern, but for anyone tempted to think that the Union Leader's endorsement of man who isn't running for president Newt Gingrich is a big deal, let's...
Shorter Verbatim Ann Althouse: "Moody doesn't entertain the notion that OWS might be fascist. He blithely links Miller and fascism to the conservative side of the political spectrum." And Althouse.
It's pretty hard to set a new standard for "dumbest argument about climate change," but this may just pull off that difficult feat. Via Henry Farrell. (Who also notes.