Nick Kristof thinks that communism in China ended on the day of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It's just taken the Chinese fifteen years to notice. So when will political change come to China? I don't have a clue, but it could come any time. While it...
A reader writes: In all seriousness--Saddam Hussein thumbed his nose at the U.S., and for the sake of our credibility as a world hegemon, the U.S. was forced to stop.
In one of the least surprising developments in legal history, the recent federal act criminalizing D&E abortions was struck down in federal courts. This was inevitable, because the law directly contradicted.
Despite my first post here, I don't plan to use this blog to engage in handwringing about past failings on my part. I'll comment on blogs and politics, like my co-bloggers, but I'll also blog a bit about my academic interests and concerns. On that front,...
What is it that irritates me about Mickey Kaus? Is it that his sixth-rate blog inexplicably gets first rate internet real estate? Is it that he sounds more like a.
Standing at the podium this morning, drinking my coffee, waiting to start my class. . . "Professor Farley," a student says. "Yes?" "I was wondering. . . My dad is.
Elton Beard effectively sums up Tom Friedman's latest ad hoc theory. But what strikes me most about it is that he chooses an example that completely repudiates his thesis: Is Vladimir Putin's Russia today a Jeffersonian democracy? Of course not. But it is a huge nation that was...
Ezra Klein has an interesting discussion about the latest journalistic thumbsucker about blogs. My favorite part of the article he cites, however, is its discussion of the blogosphere's "rock stars," which.
Tacitus is concerned the the election of Kerry will end the peculiarly American quest for a democratic world. John Kerry thinks that stability may sometimes be more important than democracy. The.
I have fewer misgivings about Kerry than either Scott or Dave. Although I supported Clark at one point (and still support him for VP), I've always thought that Kerry would make the finest president of the lot of Democratic primary candidates. Discussing Nader isn't just about...
When it comes to pragmatic arguments about Nader, I basically don't see the point. That Gore would have won had Nader not run in 2000 is indisputable; trying to argue.
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