I’m so tired of buzz-phrases repeated endlessly on cable news so that people who are angry and don’t quite know why can repeat them without really thinking about what they mean. Well that’s not...
A new study by David S. Law and Mila Versteeg concludes that the world’s democracies are no longer emulating the U.S. Constitution, and are instead resorting to other templates that guarantee more “generic building...
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In Sam’s recent post on snobbery, one of the more interesting threads had to do with what I refer to as art relativism. For my purposes here, let us define art relativism as the...
Seeing as I disliked both teams in The Big Game equally, I was unusually interested in the halftime show this year. I am not a terribly big fan of Madonna’s, but I’ve always appreciated...
The U.S. Constitution is full of terms of art — short legal phrases with deep implications and even deeper historical roots. One such phrase is the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee that no one will be...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Seems like a plausible explanation.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25They don't have a coherent plan. Full Stop. There are people focused on the tax cut. There are peopl… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The entire plan, such as it seems to be a coherent plan at all, is to let Trump do whatever he feels… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Heheheh 20 million dollars to lose by 9 points, couldn't happen to a nicer plutocrat.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I'm not sure that she has a whole lot in common with the other speakers that have been shut down ove…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Isn't that what a blacklist is? Now that the word is out on Dr. Liu, it'd take a pretty brave outfit… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I'm not sure that it's a blacklist as such. It's just another name on the pile.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25This is on top of the fact the entire article is trying to paint 'Hamas revised the numbers down' as…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's not "my" article, but it does lay out what actually happened and what the given reasons were. I…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I think it'll eventually revert to a master and apprentice kind of model where the senior person get…
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