FOOL ME TWELVE TIMES… As a follow-up to Rob, I think we need, once again, to return to dsquared’s One Minute MBA: Fibbers’ forecasts are worthless. Case after miserable case after bloody case we went through, I tell you, all of which had this moral. Not only that people who want a project will tend […]
Scott Lemieux
Scott Lemieux is a political science professor at the University of Washington. He writes for the blog Lawyers, Guns & Money. Follow @lemieuxlgm
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MORE ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF “DE-POLITICIZING” REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM.
MORE ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF “DE-POLITICIZING” REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM. Dana has an excellent post responding to claims that progressives should “de-politicize” issues of reproductive justice, noting that the main problem with this is that it’s impossible. We’ve already been through this with respect to the Iraq War, but you can’t “de-politicize” an issue that is a) […]
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THE SHAPE OF ASS-COVERING TO COME.
THE SHAPE OF ASS-COVERING TO COME. At the ACS conference this weekend, there was an interesting panel about covering the court, moderated by Tom Goldstein (who turns out to be a terrific, witty public speaker) featuring Emily Bazelon (part of Slate‘s formidable, gratifyingly non-contrarian one–two punch for legal commentary), Linda Greenhouse, and the man famous […]
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MORE ON THE FEDERALISM DODGE.
MORE ON THE FEDERALISM DODGE. To follow up on Matt and Ezra, another angle to run at it from is to apply the logic to the civil rights movement. If one takes the Rauch/Brownstein argument seriously, wasn’t it also wrong to “federalize” the divisive issue of segregation? Of course, they wouldn’t say that, but that […]
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The Divider
Despite his promises to do the opposite, under Chief Justice John Roberts the Supreme Court has become more divided than at any point in recent history. But is that such a bad thing?
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NATIONAL WHAT?
NATIONAL WHAT? My colleague Rob says most of what needs to be said about Jonah Goldberg‘s inevitably failed attempt to turn the Iraq catastrophe into a policy problem for… liberals. I’d like to address this: If you can justify causing genocide in order to end a nation-building exercise that — unlike similar efforts elsewhere — […]
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NOT THE UNWASHED MASSES!
NOT THE UNWASHED MASSES! Media types wailing and gnashing their teeth about having a debate (gasp!) not controlled by a Respected Media Professional may wish to remember, say, Ted Koppel‘s ridiculous performance in the last Democratic primary debates: You can forgive him for experimenting with a couple of questions about the horse race. But when […]
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PRIVACY IS FOR RICH PEOPLE.
PRIVACY IS FOR RICH PEOPLE. Matt beat me to the obvious point about David Ignatius‘s defense of David Vitter: the transaction in question can’t be “private” for one of the individuals involved but criminal for the other. And in this case, it’s compounded by the fact that the person being given a pass for his […]
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“AUTHENTICITY”: STILL MEANINGLESS.
“AUTHENTICITY”: STILL MEANINGLESS. J. beat me to it, but Marc Ambinder is obviously dead wrong to say that “John Edwards‘s haircut was a valid story to cover.” The idea that only poor people or, more relevant to a presidential campaign, people who pretend to be poor, can advocate policies that help the poor is transparently […]
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THE KIND OF INSIGHT YOU ONLY GET IN THE NEW MEDIA!
THE KIND OF INSIGHT YOU ONLY GET IN THE NEW MEDIA! Lest you think that they were nothing but a $7 million right-wing RSS feeder, the fine folks at Pajamas Media have published some Deep Thoughts from Rudy Giuliani about the kind of judges he’d appoint to the federal courts. Obviously, a site of this […]
