Band whose last good album was released during the Clinton administration breaks up. I can't resist the snark, in part because of the inevitable attempts of people to delude themselves about how over they've been for a while, but I still think the peak period holds...
If there's a choice to be made between reducing grotesquely high unemployment and doing nothing in order to improve our political fortunes, the Federal Reserve must do the latter.
This week's WPR column thinks about the pursuit of "strategic paralysis" in context of James Scott's discussion of High Modernism in Seeing Like a State: As a doctrine, network centric.
Very interesting stuff, suggesting our standard estimates of death during the Civil War are significantly underestimated.
Mark Penn. Still the single biggest reason that I would still support Obama if the 2008 primaries were run again. And the fact that he was portrayed as some sort.
It's difficult to summarize Taylor Branch's Atlantic story on the NCAA, or to find any specific parts to excerpt; basically, just read the whole thing. Branch ends on a relatively.
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency to Troy Davis, making his execution inevitable. Davis is not unquestionably innocent, and not quite a case like Cameron Todd Willingham where it is impossible to prove innocence to absolute certainty but we know that...
Dear Dr. Farley, Will the end of DADT bring about the collapse of American society as we know it? Should I being trying to learn Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Mexican, or.
A couple additional points to my post of Sunday. 1. My original thoughts on the decline of modern songwriting and its rootlessness in regards to place came after reading this.
David Brooks outdoes himself today. Never have we had such clear insight into the mind of the Beltway elite! Obama is clearly far more effective pandering to the nonexistent center that arouses David Brooks than actually governing!
Like a lot of people, I am perplexed by Netflix splitting its home-delivery service from its online service: Which raises the question: What is Reed Hastings smoking? As far as.
Wow: A study published in 2009 — with Matthew Salzer of the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona as the lead author — found bristlecone ring-growth rates.