The Case of Susan Collins
Maine’s Senator Susan Collins is a dinosaur. She’s one of the tiny band of moderate Republicans remaining in Congress. (There is a significant number of traditional conservative Republicans who now often get mislabeled “moderate”—everything is relative, after all.) She’s up ...
Read MoreWhat to do About Iraq (And then what?)
It’s not easy to know just what the United States should be doing about Iraq, but President Obama’s approach thus far seems about right. As the Los Angeles Times reported today, the President has followed a very deliberate and, to ...
Read MoreWebsite Fixed
For those of you who have had trouble accessing tony-greco.com in recent days, don’t despair! The problem has been fixed, and all is now back to normal. And don’t fear: this was some kind of glitch that I ...
Read MoreRepublican Craziness: It’s in The Numbers
Commenting on Eric Cantor’s defeat, Newt Gingrich claimed that it showed “…there’s a large element of America that wants a fight.” The “fight” he’s talking about, of course, is the fight against the threat posed by the forces of Big ...
Read MoreBye, bye Eric
I haven’t been writing about the Republicans much lately because I don’t like repeating myself and there hasn’t been all that much to say that I hadn’t already said. Still, I can’t let pass without some comment the stunning news ...
Read MoreObama at West Point
President Obama’s commencement address Wednesday was a good speech; about as good as could be expected. I say as good as to be expected because there are parameters that define the longstanding US foreign policy consensus that Obama, a cautious ...
Read MoreSnowden and the Surveillance State
A combination of ambivalence and uncertainty has kept me up till now from posting on the Snowden/NSA affair. I was prompted to give some new thought to the matter by the latest issue of The Nation, whose cover story/lead editorial reports ...
Read MoreThe Israel/Palestine Impasse
Like most people, I can’t resist saying “I told you so” when the opportunity arises. So, in light of the breakdown of the Israel-Palestine peace talks pushed by John Kerry, I am wont to point to my post of December ...
Read MoreThe Economist as Rock Star
I thought I would put off posting on the new book by French economist Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century, until I’ve had a chance to read it, but I can’t help saying something about the sensational reception it’s ...
Read MorePlutocracy in America
Once upon a time the reigning paradigm in America political science was something called “democratic pluralism.” The basic idea was that whatever its flaws, the US political system managed in a reasonably fair way to reflect the interests of most ...
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