Erik Loomis made more or less this same point a few weeks back, but it bears repeating: when it comes to Confederate nostalgia, Georgia is rubbish. What, after all, can be said about a state whose voters expelled the governor because they didn't like the...
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It's Abraham Lincoln's birthday. As his party gathered itself for the annual leap into the memory hole, Bill Kristol decided to celebrate by issuing, as Loomis pointed out in the.
When you're as preoccupied with historical anniversaries as I am, you occasionally notice some interesting collisions.Take today, for instance. John Walker Lindh -- the so-called “American Taliban” -- turned 27.
At Democracy, Kevin Mattson revives the "decline of the public intellectuals" narrative to castigate historians for not enlightening the public sphere as they supposedly did during the vibrant post-war era, when Richard Hofstadter, C. Vann Woodward, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and other young historians "engaged in...
Since everyone appears to be thinking about nukes this week, I thought I might pass along part of an e-mail sent to me today by a former student who is.
Via Magnus at Capital Cadre, this offering at The Officer's Club is about the clearest distillation of an American fascism that I've ever seen. A selection:The problem with our world.
In addition to the legal quirks, the recent 6CA case about the (nearly successful) efforts by the state to force an abortion clinic to close provides a good window into the strategy of incrementally dismantling Roe, as well as the folly of the appeasement via...
Shorter John Sexton: We don't want graduate student teaching at NYU to exploitative like it is at those public universities. In order to make sure this state of affairs comes.
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 again.
Social Security ain't the only evil FDR brought to the world:Second-guessing Franklin D. Roosevelt,President Bush said Saturday the United States played a role in Europe's painful division after World War II — a decision that helped cause "one of the greatest wrongs of history" when...
Typical Bobo: There are no signs that anybody is budging or willing to budge. And so it's time for a provisional obit for Social Security reform - an exercise in cold.
When I was in Montreal on Wednesday, two justices were appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court. Media coverage has focused on the fact that 1)the Canadian court now has an apparently.