I never got very far with my First Principles of Foreign Policy, but Matt Yglesias offers another:
The great irony of this all is that if there’s one thing the Republican Party does understand really well it’s the psychology and politics of nationalism. They understand it, that is, in terms of U.S. domestic politics. It doesn’t […]
Shorter David Halberstam: Mitt Romney should emulate someone who made a crazy-sounding (if not actually crazy) statement that cost him any chance in the primary.
I’m an unusual sort: I’m under the age of 50 and I watch local TV newscasts. A lot. I can’t fully say way. Part of it is just what TV scholars call “flow,” the sheer rhythm of the broadcast schedule and its amenability to my own life schedule, getting ready for work in the morning, […]
Mark Schmitt gets shrill:
Can someone explain what Senator Lieberman could possibly mean when he says the following:
“I’m worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don’t appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us — more evil, or as evil, as Nazism and […]
I’m sure that the Lieberman turn-of-events has excited the dKos branch of the liberal blogosphere, what has become synonymous with the “netroots” label, but what’s interested me (naturally) is the way the Lamont victory - and the boneheaded commentary and rhetoric that’s tut-tutted at it - has reenergized the far less rootsy center-leftish blogosphere and […]
Things have been slow posting around here in part because big news has been brewing: I have been offered a job in Philadelphia and have decided to take it. I’ll have to be short on detalis, since it’s all still be ironed out, including the official offer, but by now I’ve committed to the relocation, […]
Sometimes contrarian political positions are annoying in their mistaking of playfulness of stance with genuine insight. Sometimes, though, they’re really challenging in the best sense. Go read Tyler Cowen on the modern liberal vice and the libertarian vice.
Wow. I’ve refrained from commenting on a race that’s out of my state, but I have to say that now that Lieberman has lost, it’s quite a gratifying spectacle.
The news coverage, often in subtle ways, manages to patronize anyone with an anti-war position, or anti-Lieberman vote. Take, for instance, the lede of Rick Klein’s piece […]
Great observation from John Carroll:
Best line of the political-ad season so far: the Kerry Healey supporter who says in one spot, “She’s consistent, she’s articulate, and she tells it like it is.” This, about a candidate who has yet to say a word in her commercials.
We’ve been flooded with political ads lately, from everyone except […]
Another lousy commute today. I’m starting to wonder if the MBTA is imploding before our eyes. Not to be melodramatic or anything. It just seems service has been functioning at blizzard/crisis levels of disarray an awful lot lately.
Part of me doesn’t like to rehearse nature v. nurture arguments about gayness, in part because at a certain point I got tired of concerning myself with arguing about gayness in a public forum, choosing instead just to get on with living my life, in part because my thoughts on the matter seem to shift […]
I’m dealing fine with the heat, it’s the seeming meltdown in civic functioning that’s getting to me today. Without warning or announcement this morning, the E line decided it didn’t want to run past Brigham Circle. Grrr. Someone explained to me that when the weather goes above 95, the steel in the tracks expands, making […]
Kevin McCrae catches the Tom Reilly campaign in a likely push poll.