Over at Reason, Nick Gillespie has a long interview with Brookings dude Jonathan Rauch, bearing the snappy title “The Case For Back-Room Deals, Party Hacks & Unlimited Money in Politics”, a thesis he spells out at greater length in his new book, bearing the somewhat less snappy title “Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money,…
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Myths in a Mist
For the past year or so, the Washington Post has been running five-minute history lessons in the form of a feature that always begins “Five Myths About …”. A more honest head would be “Five Strawmen About …” A case in point—and one that, naturally, got under my skin—is a recent one by Gregg Herken,…
Gawkermania! Pretty much.
If I understand the odds correctly, it’s about 180 million to 1 that you’re reading Gawker instead of this. But if you are reading this, you may not be aware that there’s a serious suits-versus-shirts contretemps at No Shame Central, after the business boys insisted that the site pull an article about, well, let me…
Is the South finally going to look in the mirror? Well, which South do you mean?
Back in the day—way, way back in the day—in 1953, the day of McCarthy, as a matter of fact—southern historian C. Vann Woodword published a famous article, “The Irony of Southern History,” which began as follows: “In a time when nationalism sweeps everything else before it, as it does at present, the regional historian is…
It’s “President Obama,” Mr. Hiatt
Yes, in Washington, DC, the preferred honorific for the president of the United States is “President” rather than “Mister,” something that Mr. Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor for the Washington Post, is evidently yet to comprehend, judging from a recent Hiattian rant, entitled “Despite Mr. Obama’s ‘engagement,’ Cuba continues its repression,” complaining that the president…
Baltimore cops: Where is the outrage?
On May 1, Maryland State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby filed charges against six Baltimore police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, who died of spinal injuries incurred in the course of his arrest and transport in a police van. The Washington Post offers a primer on the Gray case here. Following the indictments…
Prefer a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition? You’re in luck, dude.
If you’ve been following the case or controversy involving wicked Laura Kipnis, a seriously old school feminist who hangs out at Northwestern University, well, you may have thought that Laura’s recent articles on the absurdities of Title IX political correctness had more or less crushed that particular brand of political nonsense.1 Well, if that’s what…
Today’s WP Headlines
Wassup in the Wash Post? Why an Army man says he committed mass murder The excuses men give for liking Taylor Swift So, if you’re a guy, you’re always guilty of something, right? According to the Washington Post.
The Capitalist System Strikes Back!
The Washington Post has a nice story on the once-nonexistent Cuban real estate market, now springing to life with the prospect of restored Cuban-American relations providing the juice. A few years of free-market growth could create the prosperity that fifty years of Communist oppression virtually extinguished. And Politico reports that U.S. travel to Cuba is…
Hundreds of armed, fat, white, tattooed, motorcycle-riding Texans arrested after a bloody shootout that left 9 dead, signifying nothing
That’s right. No one has used this as an excuse to make negative statements about people who ride motorcycles or who are armed, fat, white, tattooed, or from Texas. Because there’s nothing America hates more than invidious moral generalizations based on a sample of one! Afterwords But it is apparently OK to refer to the…