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In the wake of the good political news last night, especially from Ohio, let us pause and consider these questions from Charlie Pierce over at Esquire (penned before the results were in). Because at the end of the day, they are the ones that matter. And if we can’t answer them, then anything that happened yesterday [...]
Archive for the ‘Liberalism’ Category
November 9th, 2011
October 29th, 2011
A ropewalk in Rio illustrates the liberatinrg power of a safey net.
June 18th, 2011
Category: Europe, Liberalism
I remember sitting in a hotel bar in Nevada watching NBC pollmeister Chuck Todd state confidently that Barack Obama would lose the state in the 2008 Presidential election because “The Republican Party always overperforms there”. A Mexican-American businessman with whom I had been chatting during commercials responded “The Nevada he knows isn’t Nevada any more”. [...]
March 27th, 2011
Category: Democratic Party, Liberalism
The front page of the New York Times reports a bullying Governor refusing to maintain an income tax surcharge on high earners, and instead slashing money for public education and Medicaid. An outrage! This is why we need to elect Democrats. Oh, wait a minute…. This never would have happened if Mario Cuomo were alive.
February 3rd, 2011
Patton’s appreciation of tough but unglamorous work—and a bleg for a speech from the Left that does as well or better.
January 31st, 2011
Someththe
December 12th, 2010
On Megan McArdle, Mel Gibson, and inconvenient facts.
December 8th, 2010
Category: 2011 Democratic Agenda, Leadership, Liberalism, Rhetoric and Framing, Watching Conservatives
Positions on the tax-cut debate are dividing across three separate dimensions. And on all of them, the differences among Democrats are slight compared to those between us and Republicans.
November 17th, 2010
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Liberalism
I was in London when the Keith Olbermann “scandal” broke, and I struggled to explain it to puzzled Brit friends. They wondered why a liberal newscaster on a liberal channel could get in trouble for being “caught out” making liberal campaign donations. The British media does not share their American counterparts’ squeamishness about announcing a [...]
October 12th, 2010
Category: City of Angels, Liberalism, Prisons and penal policy, Public management, Unions and organizing, Watching Conservatives
Perhaps despite himself, David Brooks raises some good points about public sector sustainability in an otherwise-wretched column.
