Category: politics

Political Aesthetics and Twitter Fascism

By Dan Nexon

On December 3, 2022

In his most recent post, Paul quotes a lengthy passage from John Ganz. In it, Ganz writes that: We should recall the old chestnut about Hitler being a failed artist: unable to express himself aesthetically, he turned to politics. Today, the vanguard of neo-fascism today seems to be once again among those whose creative urges […]

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Adventures in Punditry

By Dan Nexon

On November 4, 2021

Apropos Paul’s recent post, nothing separates good from bad punditry like off-year and midterm elections. The Democrats had a bad night last Tuesday because the party that holds the White House

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Concern-Trolling Meets the Pundit’s Fallacy

By Dan Nexon

On July 7, 2018

Shorter Actual Bret Stephens: “The center is Dayton and Denver, not Berkeley and Burlington. The center is Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, not Eugene Debs and Michael Harrington. Democ

Not 3/10 of 1% of a difference – Update

By Shakezula

In politics

On February 2, 2016

Maybe they should check for hanging chads? Editors: The Iowa Democratic caucuses remain too close to call with a difference of less than three-tenths of 1 percent with all but one precinct reporting. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has not conceded and the state Democratic Party has not responded to AP’s questions about whether they intend […]

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MoveOn’s Decline

By Erik Loomis

On August 11, 2011

Kristin Rawls has an interesting piece at Global Comment on participating in MoveOn.org actions and the lack of vision from that organization. In part: On their own, they’re not terribly complicated

Lori That's suppose for the sake of argument that you are not completely nuts, but you want a giant poster of Trump's face. WTH would you chose that picture?
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Ꞅteve sliva She turned *me* into a newt.
The greatest show on Earth · March 22, 2023
S. Oelek Hehe, we took a family trip there in 1980 and it... wasn't like that.
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sanjait NYT and Wapo today both feature stories on the Fed's dilemma: fight inflation aggressively or dial back to prevent further bank runs. Essentially ... in this one instance, the capture of the central...
The greatest show on Earth · March 22, 2023
MacK My father was a diplomat, not US, and I remember as a teenager asking “why don’t we do something (i.e., the West) about guys like Ghadaffi and Saddam Hussein. “The what?” he replied. “What...
An atrocity, not a tragedy · March 22, 2023