What Mitt Romney Meant
A new Economist piece sheds light on whether or not Romney’s 2012 rhetoric was as plastic as it seemed.
Monthly Archive: July 2013
A President Adrift, a Politics Without Focus
David Atkins confronts the aimlessness of Obama’s presidency and finds no one to blame but the President himself
Monday Trivia #124 – Mo Wins!
(Kazzy here, trying my hand at Trivia, which Burt and Will were so graceful to let me do. Apologies in advance if I somehow goof this, but I’m pretty sure I got it right.)...
The Sequester: Still a Thing
The most obvious and lasting results of the sequester are being felt by those who need the government most, and influence it the least.
FNC: Where a Muslim is Just a Muslim
Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus Christ, pushes back against FNC’s Lauren Green’s assertions that it was somehow inappropriate for a Muslim to write a book about the founder...
Who owes you a living wage?
Jason Brennan, over at Bleeding Heart Libertarians argues that employers do not owe their employees a living wage. This is in the context of whether the government subsidises Wal-Mart by providing the welfare state...
Ordinary Times Bookclub: Jacob’s Room
“His slippers were incredibly shabby, like boats burnt to the water’s rim.”
Unclear on the Concept
Discussing Eric Holder’s proposed challenge to Texas’s recent change to voting laws, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah reveals some unclarity on the nature of despotism. “The court has already ruled — and he’s trying...
The Inequality President
Reading the interview, you get the impression of a guy already trying to define the way his presidency is interpreted and his immediate post-presidency is understood.
Whither Babbitt?
If the American middle class vanishes, will the American bourgeois mindset be lost forever?
The Liberal-Radical Relationship
The radical and the liberal suffer from opposite afflictions.* The radical, taking her distance from the mainstream as a measure of her probity, hastens the isolating slide. Existing in a brutally unjust world, her...
