David Brooks has an argument that the co-winner of yesterday's caucuses is a different type of conservatism. Unlike that upper-class swell Mitt Romney, you see, Santorum offers a frothy agenda directed towards the white working class. He cares about poverty, really! This may seem like...
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Yesterday LGM's palatial capital region offices received their copy of Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind. If I understand correctly, one of the book's main arguments is that attempts to distinguish.
Bobo's fantasies about elites and bipartisanship notwithstanding, to the extent that the British system is "functional" where the American system isn't, it's because the Westminster system allows majorities to govern.
Seriously, in the wake of Iraq, we're going to claim that unilateralism produces transparent decision-making, clear objectives, and considered decision-making? Right. This is so silly I'm reminded of Brooks's assertion that Iraq War was really a Burkean endeavor...