In advance of my post about the 25-greatest-novels thing, Amanda has a terrific post about Aesthetic Stalinism (left and right.) I think there are two points that are worth keeping distinct: The easy cases are when an artist has bad politics, or is a bad...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Shorter Marshall Whittman: Security threats permanently require the President to lie and break the law, and anyone who disagrees is paranoid....indeed. The Bespectacled Scooter does not understand why Democratic centrists.
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: If you pretend that "the federal income tax" comprises all taxation and examine payments in total dollars rather than percentages of income, then my claim about Bush.
Interesting WSJ article about Luttig's resignation, which seems vaguely consistent with Julia's "he was more principled reactionary than Republican hack" (unlike, say, the conservatives on the Supreme Court) theory:Judge Luttig, according to a person familiar with the court proceedings, put his own credibility on the...
With respect to the NSA program Rob discusses below, it is almost certainly constitutional according to Supreme Court precedent (an atrocious decision--Stevens' decision to join will not be remembered as.
Michael Luttig, the arch-conservative 4CA judge whose exasperation with the Bush administration's transparent attempts to avoid judicial review may have cost him a Supreme Court nomination, has resigned. It's not.
My answer to MMF's question, alas, is that I think it's highly unlikely that the Dems will take back the House in 2006, even if the polls continue to be favorable. Sophisticated computer gerrymandering means that very, very few seats are in play no matter...
Reading about the recent scandal in which HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson refused contracts to firms for partisan reasons, I was wondering--in addition to the obvious violations of sound government and.
Apropos of the Pixies reunion tour that I managed to miss out on at both ends, a friend this weekend noted how glad she was that the tour was not.
Keith Hernandez on Phillie hurler Brett Myers' tendency to get rattled on the mound: "He's not Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy, but..."The annoying thing about Hernandez's recent sexist comments is that when not engaging in wingnuttery about women in the dugout he and Gary Cohen really...
One of the most misunderstood things about feminist thought is the idea that identifying patriarchy is about "hating men" or "blaming men for the world's problems" or whatever. But, of.
A crucial point by Glenn Greenwald, who takes on the persistent annoyance of attempts to define statist conservatism as liberalism (or not-conservatism):2) Goldberg's claim that Bush can even remotely be.