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TRAINING THE IRISH. Following up on Ezra‘s post about the way successive waves of immigrants have been viewed throughout American history, I’d like to toss out this passage from Sarah Josepha Hale‘s 1841 The Good Housekeeper, an early American cookbook I hope to put to good use one day, if only to sample why it […]

ANONYMITY VS. PUBLICITY. In the wake of Michelle Malkin‘s irresponsible decision to publicize the names and contact information of two University of California Santa Cruz students, leading to a barrage of hateful calls to them, a new online coalition of bloggers, has created a “Statement of principles” defending “basic decency” online. Spearheaded by Josh Trevino […]

visting a friend who is single-handedly and without the knowledge of a few general thoughts. 1. Americans have massively underestimated the lingering power of middle eastern colonial history on how the American invasion of Iraq appears. The narrative in Egypt is one of throwing of colonial overloards and . to the extent that . this […]

THE COMMON GOOD VS. VARIOUS PARTICULARISMS. I was in Egypt last week (about which more later), so didn’t get a chance to weigh in on the great “common good” debate inspired by Mike Tomasky‘s magisterial piece in this month’s Prospect when it was in full flower, but a couple of the responses at the end […]

ANNOUNCING THE FIRST MONTHLY LONG TAIL CONTEST. A little over a month ago, I posted an open thread for reader bloggers to tell us about their sites. We found the results so fascinating, we decided to make it a regular feature. This is the first monthly “Long Tail” contest. Rules: you must be one of […]