Fixing the Service Academies
It’s a subject I know very little about, but this op-ed on Annapolis and West Point is a pretty searing indictment of how we educate our officer corps.
Daily Archive: May 24, 2010
What Fiscal Responsibility Means
UPDATED This tool from the Committee for a Responsible Budget is fantastic. It also drives home just how difficult it will be to restore some amount of fiscal responsibility. I actually got the debt...
Substi-blogging
Around the tubes….LOG Alum Br. Jamelle Bouie and friend of the Ordinary Gents Sr. Dara Lind are both guest blogging for Matthew Yglesias [link fixed]. Congrats on the gig you two. It’s well deserved....
The Idiocy of Rural Food
I’m sorry to be a downer on the whole peasant food discussion, but that’s part of my job as a historian. In very good times, peasant food was halfway decent. Very good times were...
Department of Exciting Literary Developments
The first volume of Mark Twain’s autobiography (!) is about to be released.
Ménage à cinq
The French Romantic author Gérard de Nerval once wrote: “In the character of our nation, there is a tendency to exercise force when one possesses it, and have pretensions to power, when one does...
Discrimination, Suits
To stir the pot a bit, I recall reading somewhere…. that the most common type of discrimination lawsuit is age discrimination by older people; that these suits are the most expensive discrimination cases to...
