Month: January 2016

I was in a doctor’s office in Barrington IL today. Also seated there were two men, late ’50s or early ’60s. Their clothes were casual but expensive looking, like you see on a country club golf course. (I used...

For old time’s sake.

Back in November, I made a considerable effort to raise objections to Nate Silver’s assessment that Donald Trump had no better than a 20% chance of winning the Republican nomination. Partly, I thought Silver was...

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Harris-grand-jury-indicts-pair-behind-Planned-678286 5.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop Not sure I really believe that bit about “the arc of history bends toward justice”, but...

Lee Drutman has a review of James M. Curry’s new book Legislating in the Dark: Information and Power in the House of Representatives in the January/February issue of our magazine. Drutman’s main thesis is that...