Thursday, November 12, 2015

On the Uses of Political Leadership, a Critique of Division on the Left

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You're out of power, you're being treated horribly, you're angry, and you can't reach your real enemies. So you attack the ...

Book Review: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice

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Benforado, Adam. Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice . New York: Crown, 2015. 379 pages. Unfair is a broad s...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Grebacle, Three Months On: Failing at Court Politics

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Grebacle = Greek debacle So Syriza caved in, the Eurocrats are looting Greece, and the Greeks are in a for a generation of poverty. Yani...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Politics and Science: Hard to Be a Moderate

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It used to be that anti-science blither mostly came from the right. Now we've got anti-vaxxers, anti-GMO'ers, back-to-the-landers, a...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

The Failure of the Right and Questions for the Left

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(Mostly to a conservative on hard questions asked during the Republican debate.) Hard questions are part of the job of moderators. And, fr...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Despair From the Third Republican Debate

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The responses to the third Republican debate range from “Meh, more crazy” to “These Fuckin’ People” to “It was an abomination, and it was si...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Tinfoil: Conservatopia

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(an outline, perhaps to be replaced by a more complete post) A few days ago, I tweeted: "The Republicans and conservative Democrats s...