The last few months has seen a lot of moments where it has looked like liberals are rehabilitating George W. Bush in response to Trump. This is absurd. Back at the end of Bush years, a lot of people were calling him the worst president...
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Incredibly and annoyingly, public rankings of post-World War II presidents routinely show that JFK is the most popular president, while LBJ falls just ahead of Nixon and, in recent versions.
CSPAN's latest survey of presidential rankings is out. Obama comes in at #12, one spot above James Monroe. Given that I can't think of anything particularly notable Monroe did except.
My birthday is coming up later this month. I think some presents are in order! Politicians like to say they cannot be bought. But this weekend, here amid the rolling Civil War battlefields and the kitschy souvenir shops, anyone can buy a politician — a...
One never wants to have a reason to revise a worst president list. I basically stand by this 2011 list I made, although I think the similarities in corruption between.
Too busy with book revisions and class prep and hating snow to do any President's Day posts of my own, but I thought Yglesias' ranking of presidents was not bad..
I was at the Warren Harding home a few years ago. My wife asked about Harding's affairs. The woman working there was very irritated that his name continued to be besmirched with such slander. Kind of feel like going back there now.
Given that Washington was a swampy cesspool of disease and both human and animal waste through most of the 19th century (as opposed to the spiritual and moral cesspool it.
Earlier this morning, I summed up each presidency in one tweet. They are collected here. Kelsey Atherton undertook a similar project, also worth reading.
Another recent old post rediscovered makes me realize why Franklin Pierce went in hard and came out soft. Turns out he ranks pretty high in the presidential sexiness polls.
This Chris Cillizza produced list at the Washington Post of the most underrated and overrated presidents is good for a laugh because it so reflects Beltway priorities. I know that.
When I think of Presidents' Day, the one thing that comes to mind is how stupid it is to blast the faces of presidents onto South Dakota mountains. I once.