The General offers a submission.
General
I rarely have much to say about discussions of "populism," partly because it's never entirely clear what the content of such a politics would look like, and the historical antecedents.
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The Mock Turtle finds Professer InstaHack trying to spin the recent British elections as a political triumph for Blair's support of the Iraq war, using his time-honored technique of printing emails with glaring factual howlers. He uses classic projection in assuming that the "British" tendency...
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.
Microsoft decides to back gay-rights billCapping a two-week brouhaha over Microsoft's fluid position on a state gay-rights bill, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer yesterday reversed course and said the company will.
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Lindsay offers what I think is one of the most pleasant surprises inherent to reading; addressing an argument I've long been wrestling with and articulating what I was grasping for.
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Matilda
Jonah Goldberg, quoted immediately below, is apparently too busy drinking cosmos in the park to offer a substantive response to Matt Duss and Andrew Sullivan's concerns about the increasing role of a Christian fundamentalist faction in the GOP. I'm sure once he sobers up and...
Matt Duss finds himself in a fight between Andrew Sullivan and Jonah Goldberg. Read the whole thing, but this in particular from Jonah leapt out at me:I think I should.
The other day, Brian Leiter linked to this review (PDF) of David Buller's new book for MIT Press, Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature.This looks.