Halfway through my lecture on the history of US-China foreign relations yesterday, I come to the topic of the Sino-Soviet split. I reel off a few causes (geopolitical tensions, pushy Chinese, condescending Russians, border disputes, Khruschev's dismissal of Stalin), then briefly mention the fundamental ideological...
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Heartiest congratulations to Rob on his postdoc! This blog can only be improved by a perspective from Real America, and by all accounts I've heard Lexington is a fine town..
By a 2-1 vote, the Central Committee of Lawyers, Guns and Money has decided to establish a "Red State" bureau in Lexington, Kentucky. It is believed that much of our.
Nathan Newman, Sam Rosenfeld, and Brad Plumer are of course correct--the filibuster rule in the Senate has been one of the most potent weapons that American reactionaries have had, and it would be in the interests of progressives to get rid of it even if...
I knew Bobby Madritsch was a risk. I thought he would last longer than four innings.
Ah, this is more like it:M Rivera (L, 1-1; B, 2) 0.2 3 5 1 3 1 0 38-18 10.80And Slappy Rodriguez making the key error is just icing on.
I can always trust Lance Mannion to have a wonderful set of observations on an obscure group of topics that I never considered thinking about before I read his blog. A couple of my favorites include this discussion of the relative appropriateness of a Butch...
Imagine my suprise when, while channel surfing this morning, I come across a showing of The Manchurian Candidate. What, you say? Not so surprising? Yes, but one does not typically.
It's possible that Rummy said this with a straight face:``I don't have any evidence...'' that Venezuela will turn over some of the weapons to Colombian rebels, Rumsfeld told the Herald.``All.
Via Pandagon, Jonah Goldberg writes:I guarantee you that among PhD candidates in America’s leading universities, for every “conservative” who believes the world was created in six days there are 100 who would think "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was really...
Lindsay notes that Saul Bellow, who many smart people consider the greatest American novelist of the past century (and who was born in Lachine, a suburb of my beloved Montreal),.
Congratulations to Seb at Sadly, No! and his partner, who will be having their first child in June. To ask the most obvious question, will the child take his/her father's.