The Nullification Party
I don’t feel a need to say anything today about the current Washington impasse because the unorthodox conservative Andrew Sullivan has expressed many of my own views so well and concisely. Here are excerpts from his blog yesterday: How does one party that ...
Read MoreEquivalent Extremisms?
Joe Nocera does a pretty good job on the Republicans in his NY Times op-ed today, but he spoils it near the end with this piece of nonsense: A party controlled by its most extreme faction will ultimately be forced ...
Read MoreA Note on Political Language
Before I ever read George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language I was interested in how the language we use in political discourse shapes the way we think about politics. So, from time to time I will be posting reflections ...
Read MoreYes, the Republicans Are Crazy
As he so often does, Paul Krugman nailed it right in his column on Friday. The time for euphemism is past: the Republicans are crazy. Ok, he doesn’t mean crazy in the literal clinical sense, and he probably doesn’t mean ...
Read MoreDeBlasio and the Limits of Change
The first post-primary poll is out, and it looks like a safe assumption that Bill DeBlasio will be our next mayor. DeBlasio led Joe Lhota by 65%-22% in the Wall St Journal/NBC Marist poll. That overwhelming margin will surely narrow, ...
Read MoreSyria and American Credibility
In my last post on Syria I suggested that a case for US intervention might be based on the idea that US inaction would impair US credibility, hampering this country’s ability to defend US interests in the Middle East and ...
Read MoreA Yom Kippur Reading Recommendation
I said that my next post would continue my discussion of Syria, but in the mean time I’ve come across an article that seems a particularly appropriate if not mandatory recommendation on this day. It’s in the New York Review ...
Read MoreSyria and that Faded Red Line
Hopefully, diplomacy will give President Obama an opportunity to back off further from that limb he went out on. In any case he may still ask Congress for some kind of contingent authority to launch air strikes against Syria. Circumstances ...
Read MoreStarting Out
Welcome to my website! Obviously, a major reason for my launching this site is to make people aware of my forthcoming book, Chomsky’s Challenge. Another reason is to give me an outlet for doing one of the things I like ...
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