Contra La Flanagan

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I had been meaning to get to Pamela Paul's defense of Caitlin Flanagan's upper-class anti-feminism--which essentially argues that people vociferously disagree with Flanagan's crude gender stereotypes and bourgie conformism because they secretly agree with it, but fortunately Ann Bartow, Amanda and Echidne are all on the...

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Great.Nice to see Pedro get #200 last night. (Oddly, it's the second time I've seen a pitcher named "Martinez" win his 200th win live; I saw Dennis' in Florida in.

House GOP

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Ezra Klein notes Hastert and Frist trying to blame Democrats for the House GOP passing a breathtakingly reactionary immigration bill. Good luck with that.Serious question: How do we account for.

Sicily

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Yglesias:Ever since 9/11 he's been generating words as a fantastical rate the overwhelming plurality of which are based on pretty clear-cut misreadings of Thucydides such that a book about how a once-great country ruined its foreign policy and its own moral virtue in an unnecessary foreign...

Pop-Soc Buzzwords Are Not a Plan

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Walter ShapiroKirn, guest-blogging Chez Sully, has a great post about the use of the phrase "the tipping point" as a contemporary update of the "domino effect," with roughly the same empirical validity. I've noted that Jon Chait--an excellent thinker when not writing about Iraq or John...
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