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1. A Conservative Utopia
December 23, 2010
Larry David’s sarcastic op-ed about the tax deal reminds me of one of my favorite moments in Curb Your Enthusiasm. While chatting about politics with someone, he asks, what’s so great about Lincoln’s preserving the Union? Why do we need the south? Let them secede.
With the recent fervor...
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2. Hitchens and the Tea Party: Know Your Enemy
December 20, 2010
My only question in relation to Christopher Hitchens’ recent Vanity Fair article about the Tea Party is, what took so long? Why haven’t you turned your guns against this dangerous and absurd movement sooner (your lone article about Beck’s rally notwithstanding)? After all, it contains all the sinist...
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3. Obama and the Othello Trap: Not "Easily Jealous," and never "Perplex'd in the Extreme"
December 20, 2010
I credit Ishmael Reed for saying in Sunday’s New York Times what no one else would say during the recent uproar over Obama’s refusal to “man up” or “fight back:” if the President were to do so his enemies would lurch at the opportunity to label him an angry black man reminiscent of Othello. Evident...
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4. Outrage and Ambivalence over the President's Tax Deal
December 14, 2010
Is this Obama’s Bush Sr. moment? If true, is that even a good thing? In other words, is his tax deal a moment of courage or cowardice? Bold leadership or craven capitulation?
I’ve tried to absorb many different perspectives, and the only clear answer has come from the left: hope and cha...
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5. The Myth of the Free Market
December 10, 2010
John Cassidy’s article in this week’s New Yorker offers an unanswerable argument against what he calls “the myth of the free market” that flouts at common misconceptions among Americans by walking his reader through many little discussed but unavoidable historical facts.
His essay revolves...
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6. The New Food Safety Bill and the Power of Targeted Fear
December 05, 2010
The Senate’s bi-partisan approval of overhauling the food safety system by granting the F.D.A. authority to implement stronger regulation, increased inspections and recall powers is great news and a testament to the persuasive powers of targeted fear. Many people don’t fully appreciate how corrupt,...
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7. Why Raising Nazism in the Context of the Tea Party is Not Unwarranted
November 30, 2010
Generally speaking, any time someone brings Nazism into a political debate he has essentially terminated the conversation. When liberals wielded posters of Bush sporting a Hitler mustache at anti-war protests, just as when Tea Party activists do the same to Obama at anti-health care reform rallies,...
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8. FOX News Logic Knows No Bounds, Even When It Comes to National Security
November 27, 2010
The recent uproar from the right over the T.S.A.’s tight security measures should come as no surprise, staggering as it may seem. When conservative commentators started calling Afghanistan “Obama’s Vietnam” at the very beginning of his presidency, well before he even drew up his war strategy, it be...
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9. From Dark Matter to Moby Dick: "All Deified Nature Absolutely Paints Like the Harlot"
November 27, 2010
While reading a recent New York Times article about NASA’s quest to confirm that dark matter underlies everything in nature, I couldn’t help but recall the chapter in Moby Dick called “The Whiteness of the Whale.”
The Times article explains that Sam Ting, a celebrated scientist and winner ...
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10. A Rebuttal to the Charge that Climate Experts Conspire to Raise Research Money with Hyperbole
November 22, 2010
Last week, The New York Times published an article on the state of global warming science that prompted climate experts at realclimate.org to proclaim, “That’s how science journalism should be!” The reporter, Justin Gillis, spent months researching the material, and his presentation is scrupulous a...
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