A lot of people have been talking about the subject; see Drum, Rosenfeld, Kilgore, and Klein. The consensus from the left side of the blogosphere seems to be roughly as follows: Killing agricultural subsidies would be great, but it will never happen, and the project might be part of...
Yglesias identifies the most obvious problem with the most recent manifestation of Gregg Easterbrook's mind-blowing idiocy (I think Bush as a proponent of making the tax code less regressive is even.
Our favorite Stalinist film critic and writer of the book David Horowitz has already written several times has an informative website. You know you're in for some good stuff when.
In yet more evidence that the right is doing a great job "muzzling its idiots", I note that the Klan's favorite junk scientist has been given three hours of softballs on C-SPAN this afternoon. It is a remarkable look at all the pathologies of the crackpot right: callers...
On the one hand, cutting farm subsidies is a glorious idea. Farm subsidies in the United States (and Europe, and Japan) support producers who are hopelessly uncompetitive in the global market..
James Wolcott says what needs to be said with his trademark aplomb about everyone's favorite right-wing Stalinist film critic, Michael "I can't for the life of me imagine why people prefer.
[Warning: Million Dollar Baby spoilers below. If it was as good as its adherents claim that wouldn't matter, but it's not, so you may want to skip this post if you plan to see it.] Via Edroso, you may enjoy the Stalinist criticism of Michael Medved, who complains about the...
The Poor Man gives us the Roll Call for the Democrats who voted for torture and against any semblance of the rule of law by voting to confirm Alberto Gonzalez: Landrieu.
Some thoughts on their major differences. . . The biggest difference, as Yglesias notes, is that neorealist really don't care about regime type. In other words, making Iraq a democracy.
Matt Yglesias, refusing to take my advice, has continued to dig into Theory of International Politics and its attendant commentary. There are a couple of important points to remember when you're trying to use neorealism to analyze foreign policy. The first and most important point is that neorealism can't...
A catalog from Princeton University Press arrived in my box today. I pass along without comment a book publication announcement: On Bullshit Harry G. Frankfurt One of the most salient features.
Anybody watch Fox Report with Shepard Smith? Steve Harrigan is apparently doing a three part report on how Venezuela is a communist tyranny itching to make trouble for the United States..