If you haven't read this William Hogeland piece on originalism, left and right, you should. Political theory is more djw's field than mine, but I will point a couple of things out. Left commentators like Rachel Maddow invoking the Founders in order to press current...
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Eric Hobsbawm and Barry Commoner, RIP both.
Maybe I will go see Won't Back Down since I have a love of agitprop. I couldn't find the exact trailer for the film online, but I'm guessing if you.
This evening, LGM passed 500,000 readers in a month for the first time in its history. Kind of a milestone. There's only one way I can think of celebrating this and that's with Mickey, the Firefighting Cat of Minneapolis.
I really loved reading this Rebecca Solnit article on "leftsplaining" after being attacked on Twitter all day yesterday from self-proclaimed lefties because I suggested that those who urge us to.
I can't recommend this Amanda Marcotte piece enough. Abortion has no negative net effect on the Democratic Party's struggles with the white working-class over the past 40 years. Those problems.
How did we reach a point in American life where Bud Selig could be the least loathsome of the major sports league commissioners? This thought causes me nightmares.
I've been thinking more about issues surrounding what I see as progressives' lack of understanding around how to organize for the change they want. See here, but to reiterate, too.
Chris Blattman links to this very interesting image, charting film genres over time. As you can see, this charts some expected but interesting phenomena--the decline of westerns, the rise of.
A couple of commenters and links have basically said that in not taking drone killings of Pakistanis seriously enough (for them) in my post yesterday, that I am basically choosing which brown people matter and which don't. Jim Henley especially does this, and in a...
Because Robbie Fulks is awesome and because Georgia Hard is the best country album of this millennium.
Connor Friedersdorf writes the kind of political essay I can't see anyone but a privileged white person writing. Going as far as to nearly (but not quite he says!) compare.