Blog: TAPPED

THE HORSE’S MOUTH. Fans of Greg Sargent‘s contributions to Tapped, take note: As part of the Prospect‘s ever-expanding blog empire, we’re now hosting Greg’s own blog on media and politics, The Horse’s Mouth. You’ll want to make it a regular part of your daily TAP online intake. (Greg won’t be a stranger to Tapped, however […]

To follow up on Matt‘s post about Ramesh Ponnuru‘s complaints that we (among others) won’t review a book that we haven’t been sent review copies for, I just did a search on a book I quite like: The Medical Malpractice Myth, by Tom Baker. Baker is a law professor at the University of Connecticut, and […]

SHOW ME THE BOOK! Lord am I tired of all this whining about how liberals aren’t reviewing Ramesh Ponnuru‘s book, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life. I think Kevin Drum already wrote the definitive take on this, but I’ll reiterate. On the one hand, at […]

ISRAEL LOBBIES. Subscription-only CQ reports on the looming showdown between the House and the Bush administration over a draconian bill imposing across-the-board sanctions against the Palestinian Authority and limiting the president’s waiver authority (which normally gives him some flexibility to override the directives). The administration has made clear that it opposes punitive sanctions of this […]

THE HISTORICAL MOMENT? I think I agree with about half of Ezra�s post below. Just as the Democrats were purged of their southern roots in 1994, so too might an overdue regional realignment visit the northeast in 2006. If, for example, voters in Connecticut remove Chris Shays, Rob Simmons, and Nancy Johnson from office, then […]

AND I WOULD’VE SUCCEEDED, TOO, IF NOT FOR THOSE MEDDLING SITCOMS. Stanley Kurtz‘s hysterical post unveiling the “the entirely unsecret conspiracy against patriotism, tradition, and religion hiding in plain sight on our movie and television screens, in our universities, and on the pages of the mainstream press” is a peculiar piece of argument. Conservatives, he […]

NEW COUNTRY ON THE BLOCK. It looks like we’ll soon be welcoming Montenegro into the family of sovereign states. But don’t believe everything you read in the newspapers: “For supporters of Montenegrin independence, the results, however narrow, are the fruition of a decade-long struggle to enable Montenegro to reclaim its status from 1878 to 1918, […]

CAN’T WIN FOR WINNING. LB is right — the conventional wisdom is shifting against the Democrats. As today’s Washington Post shows (and as Sam noted), the GOP is setting up victory as merely keeping Congress in 2006. Of course, with gerrymandered districts and the natural benefits of incumbency, losing Congress is a virtual impossibility. The […]

WHAT DID DHS KNOW? Jeff Stein reports that some members of Congress are asking questions about whether the Department of Homeland Security may have had access, via its NSA liaison, to the NSA’s illegal wiretap and phone record surveillance programs. This would be the same Department of Homeland Security, we recall, whose operatives were used […]

METAETHICS: THE SAGA CONTINUES. I don’t want to get too bogged down in this, but since Jonah Goldberg‘s written some posts in response to what I said Friday on relativism, here’s a bit more. One thing, for the philosophers in the room, is that “relativism” per se is a vulgar term that just about everyone […]