Month: March 2015

In the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, Theodoric Meyer has a book review of Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper’s The Last Beach. The news is pretty depressing: Pilkey and Cooper’s predictions are grim: “We...

Israel seems headed for a depressing election result. It looks like Netanyahu is weakened enough that his party will take a bath. But the right-wing parties are almost assured of getting at least a slim majority of the seats in...

After an seemingly endless…and as usual totally fruitless…colloquy between myself and centerfielddj in the comments section of Booman’s apparent Arthur Gilroy callout Rand Paul is Just Like the Others (The...

I think that the way the students at the University of Oklahoma chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon have been treated is pretty indicative of how this country has officially become anti-racist. I don’t mean that racism...

I remember when most people, including me, thought that the Republican Party was so in bed with the defense industry that they would never allow sequestration to take place. It turned out that somehow the Tea Party virus was...