Blogs about: History And Current Events
Obama/Wayne 2008? McCain/Wayne 2008?
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SEK wrote 12 hours ago: Having failed in my attempt to compel Adam to discuss The Dark Knight in terms of Schmitt, Benjamin, … more »
Eric? This is a Jewish name?
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eric wrote 17 hours ago: You don’t need me to tell you that Richard Price’s Lush Life is a great novel; Michael C … more »
Fill
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davenoon wrote 1 day ago: In addition to showing off their Muppetology, I notice that my new blogging colleagues like to post … more »
United States of America v. Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States
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ari wrote 1 day ago: [Editor's Note: Kathy Olmsted, awesome as ever, joins us to talk about Nixon. Perhaps you all coul … more »
Aging gracefully.
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eric wrote 2 days ago: Inasmuch as I am now the same age my father was when the Police released their last studio albu … more »
Mainstreaming ageism.
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ari wrote 3 days ago: I nod my head approvingly gravely while casting admiring censorious glances in the direction of writ … more »
"I do not think about things I don't think about."
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ari wrote 4 days ago: [Author's Note/Update: Thanks to Vance Maverick for the link to the above vid.] On this day in 1 … more »
More on satire. Sort of. And also other stuff.
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ari wrote 5 days ago: This strikes me as at the very least a telling and perhaps even a significant moment in recent tele … more »
The Depths of the American South
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SEK wrote 1 week ago: As the some of you caring for my cats already know, I’m off tomorrow to reacquaint myself with … more »
Why I write.
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eric wrote 1 week ago: This column isn’t only an effort to get Matthew Yglesias to stop seeing Theodore Roosevelt thr … more »
Don't offer me a place out in cyberspace.
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eric wrote 1 week ago: On this day in 1975, United States Air Force General Thomas Stafford shook hands with Soviet Colonel … more »
At least there's an answer to "when did you stop."
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eric wrote 1 week ago: Bruce Bartlett is again saying that because the Democratic party was the party of white supremacy th … more »
Woe is Us
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davenoon wrote 1 week ago: There are many ways to measure the failure of the Carter administration. Among them, we would have … more »
Equal time?
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eric wrote 1 week ago: This New Yorker cover “combines a number of fantastical images about John McCain and shows the … more »
Lies, damned lies, and the work of Amity Shlaes.
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eric wrote 1 week ago: Henry points to “Amity Shlaes at the Washington Post telling us that Americans are too whiners … more »
But, but, but—He started it!
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SEK wrote 1 week ago: The growing consensus is that you should make the death of a divisive public figure you admire about … more »
Thank god for avid reds!
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SEK wrote 1 week ago: Searching for a quotation in response to John Holbo’s post on revolutionaries and patriotism, … more »
Unfit for the presidency, 3.
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ari wrote 2 weeks ago: Literally. I thought this was old news. But the Constitution is forever young. … more »
Save the Blue Water Line.
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eric wrote 2 weeks ago: On this day in 1896 William Jennings Bryan declared from the platform of the Democratic Convention a … more »
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