I like this Peter Beinart much better than the old one. Where the women writers at? Here. "Fiscal hawk," in Villager, means nothing more than "a willingness to attack programs that benefit poor people in order to fund deficit-busting upper-class tax cuts." So Ryan...
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Irin Cameron with a wonderful dismantling of Caitlin Flanagan. Of course, "unproven gender essentialism and barely-disguised contempt for a woman with whom she purports to be empathizing" is an accurate.
For the angry loners, the solitary hermits, the alcoholics, the unemployable... France's sale of Mistral class amphibs is now a done deal. Two will be built in France, potentially two.
I'm sure if the government of South Carolina gave Lanny Davis a sawbuck he'd be on every TV station in the country asserting that slavery had nothing to do with secession within the hour. Tom Coburn produces government waste. Apparently Brad has yet to be...
Jill's take on the Assange is arrest is definitive. Of course, the priority put on his arrest is almost certainly political. But that doesn't make the charges invalid on their.
In hye-larious fraternity hijinx, some Yale assholes engage in threatening pro-rape slogans around student housing for women, and have not yet been disciplined by the university. You wonder how many.
Meghan O'Rourke and Ruth Franklin with more on sexism and book reviewing. Although if the NYTBR fails to review this, I wouldn't say it's evidence of sexism. Thesis: Carl Paladino is a bigger trainwreck than Christine O'Donnell. The best book about baseball not written by...
Heckuva job from Bobo, who manages to compare Germany and the United States -- asserting that the latter has had less growth because of greater stimulus -- without even mentioning.
From around the internets...David Axe gives some thought to the Pentagon's image problem in Africa and South America.Lance Mannion unearths some startling facts about the youthful "Barry" Obama.Slyde considers off-season.
Wandering the internets while watching the classy Yankee Stadium farewell...Interesting NYT article on the Naval Academy. Most fascinating bit; Barack Obama beat USNA alumnus John McCain 13-7 in an unscientific but interesting poll of upperclassmen.The first time I saw Red River, I wondered whether it...
A useful collection of writings (fiction and non-fiction) from the late David Foster Wallace available online. I particularly recommend "Tense Present" and his take on Updike.
From about the internets...Efforts to ditch Mitch continue apace. Now with video!Michael Stickings noodles on nationalist kitsch and the GOP.David Greenberg accuses several bloggers, including myself, of being part of.