Via Will Wilson and MR, here’s an interesting paper on the Protestant work ethic: Many theories, most famously Max Weber’s essay on the ‘Protestant ethic,’ have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development....
I defend consumerism, talk about California and the filibuster, grumble a bit about climate change, and explain why I think it makes more sense to give back the $1 million dollars it costs to...
From Huffpo: Zbigniew Brzezinski also cautioned that it would be hypocritical and counterproductive for America to stress that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government be purged of corruption.
The American Scene announced this season as Fall of the USA, and I had high hopes that we’d be treated to cornucopia upon cornucopia of reflections on John Dos Passos’s USA Trilogy. Alas, it’s...
I was going to write a longer post on this, but one interesting consequence of Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan (a decision I support, however tentatively) is the ad hoc redrawing...
Damon Linker on appeals to common sense in American politics is worth reading, even if he overlooks the fact that like all rhetorical tropes, celebrating the intuition of the American people is a thoroughly...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25You can't use normal political thinking with Trump or anyone around him. That is a big part of the r…
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I, more than Chait, clearly overestimated the Trumpkins. The choice to simply claim prosperity was T… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Whenever I post, I get sent to a message like this: Warning: Undefined variable $a in /home/ordina27… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Does Chait know who we are talking about? These aren't very bright people, they are fanatically comm…
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