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Handicapped by history
How’s this for irony: one of the most conservative states in the nation submits a statue of an vocal and avowed socialist to represent it in the U.S. Capitol’s statuary hall. As James Loewen has...
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Interesting twist of history
via facebook, this item caught my eye just now: Benito Mussolini was paid £100 a week by MI5 to keep Italy in the first world war. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis History remembers Benito Mussolini as a...
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What do George W. Bush and LBJ have in common?
Enough personal stuff: back to the politics. The New York Times has an interesting item up today about Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf. Washington is waiting with bated breath...
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The heart-full dodger
Yesterday was the final meeting of Politics and the Press, which is one of the most enjoyable courses that I’ve taken, without a doubt. This is mainly because of the impressive lineup of guest speakers...
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Worth noting
Hendrick Hertzberg—who is always worth reading—has a new item up today that reiterates a point I’ve heard made many times before: If the health care bill that we’ve ended up with in 2010 isn’t worth...
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Alexander Haig’s way with words
From the nytimes obituary of white house chief of staff and secretary of state Alexander M. Haig: He had a unique way with words. In a 1981 “On Language” column, William Safire of The New York Times, a...
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How far we’ve come
During the past week or so, my work at the CPPP has been focused almost exclusively on projects relating to health care reform, and in between sending out the CPPP’s letter to the Texas congressional...
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Good news from the SBOE
That whole “slave trade” thing? Don’t worry about it—United States didn’t have anything to do with that. The “Atlantic triangular trade,” on the other hand …
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UT’s Discrimination Pressure Valve
My latest piece for the Observer, about the dispute over renaming Simkins dormitory, is now online! Two public forums to inform an advisory committee to make a recommendation to the actual...
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