Democratic Debates: The Moderates Strike Back
The problem with the two night debate format is with the front runner in second night, most of what happened here will be forgotten about come tomorrow evening.
Tagged: Ryan
FDR On The Modern Republican Party
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook The whole segment with Stewart is great, but the clip of FDR is prime,...
Politics and Empathy
Tom Bissell is one of my favorite writers. In his recent career he’s written a lot about video games, but for the election Yahoo! News has given him some space to pontificate about politics.
The Real Generation War
…Is the one proposed by Ryan and Romney. Not, as David Brooks’ pop psychology analysis would have us believe, one between folksy emotionalism and new wave wonks. I would normally try not to waste...
Paul Ryan Was Right (I’m Serious)
As much as I’d love to revel in Ryan’s tax-evasion during last night’s Vice Presidential Debate, I have to—oh it hurts!—agree with him. I’ve written in the past about why exactly I loathe Paul...
In Which I Dissect One Harvard Professor’s Tabloid Cover Story (…At Length)
I won’t waste time giving you the context. Niall Ferguson wrote the cover story for Newsweek’s August 19th issue. It is an affront to sound reasoning, intellectual curiosity, and charitable discourse. Here’s why.
Romney names Ryan the VP nominee in campaign concession speech
(Note: This post is NOT part of our current Democracy Symposium. If you want to follow the Symposium – and you should! – you can find it here.) This morning, the Romney camp made two...
The Sometime Blogger Formerly Known As…
Hello all! Sorry I’ve been kind of out of touch for a month or so. I’ve had a lot of big things going on, the second-biggest of which was getting a new job. The...
