Though the post-Lugar media tide has subsided, the American Right’s growing radicalism is still a leading theme of American political coverage. Even before Lugar’s unceremonious exit from public life, the Tea Party and other...
James Lipton offers some good, though likely impossible, advice to Mitt Romney (via The Dish.) Politics is performance. This has never been more true than now.
Something David Ryan wrote about dark art and wanna-be-sophistos has had me thinking for a while – first about whether valuing civility and the desire not to offend keep us all trapped in a...
Time Magazine deliberately started an uproar with its cover photo of a woman confrontationally breastfeeding (seriously, if you can breastfeed confrontationally, she’s doing it) a preschooler. And so the backlash against attachment parenting begins....
by Sam Wilkinson Once, I was a graduate student pursuing a PhD in Political Science, a stupid idea for at least a thousand different reasons, perhaps most importantly my aversion to political science in...
Requiescat in pace, Donald “Duck” Dunn.
(Previously: The Knock Down, Part 1 and Part 2) I am a morning writer; a cup of coffee, sitting in bed with my laptop. But as we crash on the boat time’s been short,...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Ganz covers the Atlantic debacle well: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest "…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Everyone just freaked out. There was no real analysis, it was all “something must be done, won’t som…
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationsyou seem fun.
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsI'm not grading your papers, you are. What that says about either of us, I leave to the reader.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Jonathan Chait has an article in the Atlantic (reprinted here at AOL): Why the COVID Reckoning Is So…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25As someone who'd ban ALL campaign contributions, this is not a disqualifier for me. Plus, I don't li…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I provided a link of her rallying against AIPAC on social media. on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationsquite mad, indeed.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Agreed. on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsThey also didn't want to hold their nose at work with people that made them wretch. Many of them als…
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