I mentioned recently that to call Antonin Scalia a "formalist" is too give him too much credit. Now, in fairness, if you evaluate these things on a continuum he could be seen as relatively "formalist" in comparison with the typical Supreme Court justice. (And, contrary...
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Just to make a last quick point, I think this post at the (superb) Counterspin Central represents a fairly common misperception about the extent of Dred Scott's holding. Obviously, if the Court.
A former student actually paid attention to one of my 10 minute diversion/rants on the use of the term "identity politics." I know because she kindly sent me a link.
Paperwight and Mark Kleiman are, of course, correct: the President's bizarre invocation of Dred Scott is about abortion. Lest you think this is a reach, let's turn it over to Nino, in his dissent in Stenberg v. Carhart (the case that struck down Nebraska's D&E abortion statute for not...
I'm not going to try to tell you that Jacques Derrida wasn't an "abstruse theorist." The appropriateness of this adjective would be a perfectly appropriate subject of debate, and perhaps.
The best line of debate coverage, I must concede, is from Sully: Bush promised at one point that he'd be more "facile" in future. That's going to be a hard promise.
I just hope Atrios is right. I think Kerry did what he needed to do, but as I said below he let too many distortions lay out there. It's probably correct that responding to each one would be counterproductive. But his response on the war supplemental--which still...
Bush throws out the distortions on the $87M vote and the "global test," and Kerry ignores it. Jesus Christ. And now Bush is claiming, again, that inspections and sanctions didn't.
Fortunately, Yglesias offers the appropriate analysis of swing-state supporters of my least-favorite conservative vanity candidate so I don't have to.
Even former Bush sycophants are deserting--Andrew Sullivan, Howard Fineman, Mickey Kaus. But I was shocked to see that the paper of choice for the complacent mid-right, The Seattle Times, had endorsed Kerry: Four years ago, this page endorsed George W. Bush for president. We cannot do so...
My home town, where I lived from birth through my 18th birthday, is Port Angeles, Washington. It's certainly in a beautiful part of the country, and all in all it.
Against my better judgment, I used Kernell and Jacobsohn's The Logic of American Politics for my course on American political history. I wasn't crazy about it in my perusal, but it's.