The biggest problem with the term Islamofascism has always seemed to me that it conceptually unites groups of people who ought not be put under the same umbrella. When hawks used the term in 2002 and 2003, it conveniently put Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda into...
I've been reviewing our archives in an effort to collect our Nader posts and book reviews. This is no mean task; you would not believe how many of our posts.
In the comments to a post about some ev-psych wankery at the Freakonomics blog, Belle Waring has uncovered someone taking "Nice Guy" self-pity to quite remarkable depths. A taste (and.
Yesterday morning, a colleague with mild tendencies towards neo-conservatism pointed, in irritation, to Ken Pollack's article in the Washington Post. "It's as if," the colleague noted, "he hadn't written a book trying to convince me that the war was a good idea." Right, I said; Pollack...
A while ago, Kevin Drum declared that Rodger Federer was the most dominant athlete in any sport today. I've wondered about this for some time. For my money (and it.
Thoughts on the Shatner Roast? I haven't watched the whole thing, but the parts I've seen were pretty funny. I'm pretty skeptical about the comedy value of the "roast" format,.
143 years ago today, a guerrilla group called Quantrill's Raiders rolled into Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence was a target of Confederate ire because it had been a center of anti-slavery activity during the "Bleeding Kansas" years, in which pro and anti slavery forces strove to control Kansas....
In light of today's "closing the barn door after thieves have stolen your livestock, burned down the barn, killed your family, and absconded with a trillion dollars" revelations by the.
Ugh:The idea is that when they break up the drug ring, the dealers forfeit the suitcases full of money found in their closet next to the kilo of coke. The.
Martha Nussbaum's review of Harvey Mansfield's Manliness is the most devastating critique of the philosophical pretensions of a Strauss disciple since...Nussbaum's evisceration of The Closing of the American Mind. (I'm not sure if the review is available to nonsubscribers; generous excerpts are available here.) While the...
A few points on Boston Massacre II: The Red Sox made two crucial moves that 1)I heartily supported at the time, and 2)have, in retrospect, turned out to be bad-to-disastrous..
In his review of an interesting-looking new LBJ biography, Alan Brinkley writes:Woods challenges as well a critical element of Caro’s extraordinary portrait of Texas politics in the second volume of.