Of Chimps and Abortion
I was struck by the relevance to each other of two completely unrelated articles in today’s NY Times “Review” section. The first was an op-ed by Ross Douthat devoted to a denunciation of “abortion extremists” who would countenance abortion in ...
Read MoreRemembering Iraq
This week marked the fifteenth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Nicholas Kristof usefully reminds us of the catastrophic consequences of that decision, for the Iraqi people and for the Middle East, as well as its costs to the ...
Read MoreStorm Over Daniels
Trump denies that he had an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. At the same time, he’s suing her to enforce their non-disclosure agreement. Huh? Why would there have been a non-disclosure agreement about an affair that never happened? Am ...
Read MoreRecalling Obama
Remember when we had a thoughtful, morally centered adult serving as President of the United States? Princeton Professor Julian Zelizer, in this summary of his book on Obama’s legacy, reminds us that it really wasn’t that long ago. For those ...
Read MoreAmerican Democracy Under Threat
A number of pundits and scholars have been warning lately that American democracy is in danger. The danger isn’t of an outright collapse of democratic institutions—there is no coup d’etat on the horizon—but of a significant diminution of the conditions ...
Read MoreAmerica’s Exceptional Gun Problem (II)
I don’t like to repeat myself, but some things bear repeating. Here, again, is the link to that excellent article I cited in a previous post. Among other things, it thoroughly demolishes the gun nuts’ familiar claim that the only ...
Read MoreThe Partisan Imperative
Just a short post today, to link to a fine article in The Atlantic that echoes an argument that I made some time ago. Today, in the US, you don’t have to think hard about whom to vote for: blind, ...
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