Monthly Archive: January 2011

Wealth Transfer

Here’s Atrios: Just because I’m petty and George Bush was very proud of the increase the home ownership rate under his presidency, latest census figures out today have the home ownership rate at 66.5%....

Launch

After the jump, the sculpture ‘oversikt’ by the artist Jone Kvie from the “launch” series at the Kunstnerforbundet Gallery in Norway (try saying that three times fast!):

Flogging the Canon

Over at Inside Higher Ed, Stephen Brockmann apologizes for the culture war having politicized the humanities in the 80s: “What on earth were we thinking? Exactly why was it considered progressive in the 1980s to get...

“Disunion”

That’s the title of The New York Times’ series on The Civil War, which is highly recommended. Here’s a great entry on Virginia, the (relatively) urbanized and cosmopolitan “North of the South” during the...

Deresiewicz

The Bush Revival

Inspired by this incredibly silly post, I thought I’d recommend an old but prescient article from Ross Douthat on the all-but-inevitable recovery of Bush’s foreign policy reputation. It is staggering to think that a...