Via Dan Kennedy, a blast from the past from Kathryn Jean Lopez, who argues that poor David Hager was being discriminated against for religious reasons, but of course would never allow his beliefs to get in the way of his scientific responsibilities. I think it’s safe to declare this assertion inoperative. Also note this part […]
This is making the rounds: “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party ag
As a follow-up to my post about pro-choice politics and populism, Matt provides some extremely useful data: People were asked what they think about “making it more difficult for a woman to get a
I know you’ll think I’m making it up, but I swear that walking argument against nepotism (and film critic who makes Michael Medved look like Pauline Kael) John Podhoretz wrote the following at the Kiddy Korner: Harry Reid vote total in 2004 = 490,232 Bush vote total in 2004 = 62,040,606 Yes, truly unassailable logic. […]
Tbogg and Attaturk do some good work taking John Tierney’s latest apart, but I don’t think they go quite far enough. Let’s forget, for a moment, that John Tierney is a complete fucking hack whos
I’m not the sort that reads Powerline with any regularity, but this caught my attention: It’s great to see someone standing up for colonialism, especially British colonialism. I agree whol
Matt continues to give Jonah Goldberg a well-deserved thrashing; Jonah should try, in the future, not to piss off those who are both smarter and better read than he. The Juan Cole experience should have been informative, but I guess he just hasn’t learned his lesson. . . Now, for Goldberg’s “defense of Soviet occupation […]
Shorter Stanley Kurtz: “The fact that anti-feminist screeds that are given massive amounts of coverage in major media organs sell bubkes proves that feminism is only found among ‘elites
I had particular reason to be grateful this Mother’s Day, as for my birthday my parents bought me a ninth-row center seat to the Broadway revival of that heartwarming pean to maternal values and
The General offers a submission.
I rarely have much to say about discussions of “populism,” partly because it’s never entirely clear what the content of such a politics would look like, and the historical antecedent
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