Some thoughts for those reading the Sonny and Freddie imbroglio (the bloggers, not the Corleones): I see a bit of a problem not uncommon to the blogosphere of two serious...
After a restful holiday, I’m going to ease my way back into blogging rather than dive headfirst into the maw of politics. On that note, I saw a fine performance...
I realize I’m supposed to find Naomi Klein irritating, and am probably obliged to call attention to her economic illiteracy, but what struck me when reading this recent New Yorker...
Mr. Yglesias spends some time doing what bloggers do, which is to say needlessly agonizing over large-scale questions like military interventionism. He declares the public conversation on preventing genocide in...
The folks at The New Republic have an idea: why not universal healthcare, right now, not just in spite of but because of the economic crisis? And the thing is,...
Reading this Newsweek piece by Fareed Zakaria brought to mind two points: 1) Zakaria is an interesting bird, belonging to a school of thought that might be termed “declinism, except.”...
