Neither John Jenkins nor his new book, The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist, have gotten much respect on the web. Both University of Chicago Law Professor Eric A. Posner at the sometimes liberal New Republic and Kevin R.C. Gutzman, professor of history at Western Connecticut State University, writing for the unconventionally conservative American Conservative,…
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James Q. Wilson good, James Q. Wilson not so good
James Q. Wilson, paired perhaps too conveniently in death with the rowdy Andrew Breitbart, was hailed as one of the best, or at least one of the most tolerable, of the neo-conservatives, no doubt because he was careful to avoid foreign policy. The “necessary” war in Iraq, and now the even more necessary war in…
You have a friend at Goldman Sachs. Unfortunately, he just quit
Greg Smith, formerly of Goldman Sachs, lays it on the line in an Op-Ed in the Times that will undoubtedly ring around the blog world today: “TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for…
The Obama Administration: Once the failure of our policy in Afghanistan becomes obvious to the American people, they’ll be more willing to pretend that it’s a success
Yes, that seems to be thinking around the White House these days, if you can believe the New York Times—and on this occasion I can. According to Mark Landler “The killing of two American servicemen and the eruption of deadly anti-American protests in Afghanistan confronts President Obama with a potential political weakness in a foreign…
Patrick Deneen is better than you are, or at least more pompous
Over at Front Porch Republic, a site that I’ve never visited before and probably won’t visit much again, Georgetown Poli Sci Professor Patrick Deneen announces that he’s leaving G-Town for Notre Dame, saying that “my family and I are looking forward to living in a community that is less hectic and less dazzled by the…
For the children, goddamnit, for the children
In a recent posting in the NYT, bible thumpin’ Ross Douthat warns the Christian right to stay the fuck away from Newt Gingrich: “It isn’t just that he’s a master of selective moral outrage whose newfound piety has been turned to consistently partisan ends. It’s that his personal history — not only the two divorces,…
Michael Bloomberg: Dumber than the Kochs? Or just more unscrupulous?
What is it about having billions and billions of dollars? Does it make you stupid? As well as, you know, totally corruupt? Recently, New York Mayor for as long as I damn well feel like it Michael Bloomberg, sounding drunker than Rick Perry, let fly with this one (via counterparties): “It was not the banks…
Centaur talking!
It does look like the analyst is talking here in this New Yorker cartoon. But why waste a centaur? I don’t understand. Go here to see the New Yorker cartoon contest. “Hell yes I blame my parents! Wouldn’t you?” “Recognition I get, but what I want is chicks.” “I shit on this guy’s rug once,…
Murder most foul, continued
I seem to spend an unconscionable amount of time making fun of the New Yorker on this blog, but sometimes they nail it. The nailer, in this case, is Amy Davidson, with this blog entry on the Obama Administration’s latest triumph, the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki’s 16-yer-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, which, Amy says, makes her…
Steven Brill, not entirely brilliant
I’ve been reading Steven Brill’s Class Warfare, his free-swinging account of the latest chapter in America’s ever-continuing education wars. Filling us in on the historical background, Steve tells us how Albert Shanker’s American Federation of Teachers pumped up starting teachers’ salaries in the Big Apple from $5,300 in 1962 to $45,530 in 2007, “more than…