State's State-Building Mandate?
By • Feb 02,2009

State's State-Building Mandate?

Chris Brose over at Shadow Government has sketched out some thoughts on how the Department of State might be restructured to operate less like 1950s-era GM and more like a...

By • Feb 02,2009

Business school

This may be the classic Harvard Business School post. Bury the lede, offer up an endless anecdote about a popular WASP pastime, such as fishing, kiss Malcolm Gladwell’s ass, and...

By • Feb 02,2009

Our Post-Racial Future

This screencap from the WSJ has been circulating around the blogosphere: Yeah, definitely not OK. But what about this from TPM? Cuz, you know, he’s BLACK! Like Dre and Ice...

By • Feb 02,2009

Dost This Pew Have upon It Thy Name?

Peace to thee in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, fellow pew occupant. With great sarcasm do I fling this greeting in thy general direction. Well: not thy general...

By • Feb 01,2009

Shock Doctrine Stimulus

Reading the back and forth between Ross and Yglesias about the stimulus, I’m struck by something. Writes Matt: Second, with a lot of this stuff whether or not it really...