The interesting things about dissertation defenses is, no matter how they turn out you'll want to get drunk afterward...
Kudos to the newly minted Dr. Scott Lemieux. May his legitimacy rub off on the rest of us.
I foolishly wasted time last week following a trail of links to a rather ridiculous right-wing website. There was a long, gleeful post about the outing of Joe Wilson as a liar, coward, and.
The grocery store I frequent most often has an ad for the egregious "Fox and Friends" on the mechanical cart. Apparently because it's not quite disingenuous enough, they abjure the "fair and balanced" slogan (although there is a "we report, you decide" in the bottom corner.) No,...
David Adesnik makes an observation about NYT campaign coverage. I think we can safely call it an understatement: The negative thrust of campaign journalism has begun to engulf the Democratic candidates..
Responding to libertarian blogger Abiola Lapite, Brad DeLong muses on global warming.... I think that, for most global-warming fearers, it is naivete that makes them advocate an immediate program to attempt.
You read the blogs enough and you can get the sense that a good portion of libertarians are thoughtful and sensible (if myopic). This may well be true, but it's really not close to the whole story. When the Libertarian Party nominated this guy, a few of...
Jesse Taylor addresses what is is sure to be an issue that'll be coming up from now through Nov. 2--how the evil trial lawyers are driving up the cost of health.
Roger Ailes recently pointed out an embarrassingly stupid op-ed piece by Wan Julliams, in which he complained about how the vacuous lip service with no changes in policy whatsoever offered.
Brad DeLong has a nice post comparing Ehrenreich in 2000 and 2004. I'm always amused to be reminded some classic Naderite tropes, such as the fact that a conservative justice happened to vote to uphold Roe means that it doesn't matter who's in the White House as...
One Steven Zeitchick takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to write what might be the stupidest defense of Fox News ever: Yet to call these films propaganda is also.
I don't know much about British politics, but I have to wonder: If there were an election in the U.K. tomorrow, how many seats would Labour lose to the Lib.