The Republican Party doesn’t need its opponents to call it stupid. They call themselves that—there’s no point in denying an open secret. It was proper and legal to invoke Virginia’s already-existing election code and...

Marilynne Robinson, doing what she does [NYT], talks about books, writing, and the Bible – as well as writing one of the politest harsh critiques of contemporary literature possible:

Every once in a while I read a post that is so, so, so completely right that I struggle not to quote the entire thing. This Glenn Greenwald post is one of them: America’s...

Quoting from James Fallows’ Dick Cheney’s Heart: “We all know the cliche about people who switch from youthful idealism to mid-life flinty-mindedness. One version goes, If you’re not a socialist in your twenties, you have...

Surprisingly (to me, anyway), I got a fair amount of pushback from my post on the signed Loyalty Oath that the Virginia GOP now requires in order to vote in its primary. This pushback...

Over at the League sub-blog “Forbes”, E.D. shares Roger Ebert’s suggestions as to why movie theatregoing is declining. As avid cinephiles, one might expect me and the missus to go to the movies more...

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