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Who's on first? 17 Feb 2012 | 11:58 am
I know everyone in the known media on seven continents (and possibly on Moonbase Gingrich as well, for all I know) has pointed out the musical-chairs game of Who's the GOP Frontrunner This Week, but a...
The '60s made us do it 11 Feb 2012 | 05:07 am
Paul Krugman's column today—noting that Charles Murray's new much ballyhooed book on the social divide is merely the latest example of a venerable conservative tactic to attribute all problems in Amer...
U.S. News, the root of all evil 2 Feb 2012 | 04:47 am
Back in ancient times when I worked at esteemed weekly newsmagazine U.S. News & World Report, I always loathed the annual college rankings report. Like all cash cows, however, the college guide was a...
Visionary grandiosity 31 Jan 2012 | 03:04 am
I was willing to let it pass when Newt Gingrich compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, Charles de Gaulle, Napoleon, and Mahatma Ghandi, but the Wright Brothers is just a bit too much. Newt's formula fo...
The moral race to the bottom 21 Jan 2012 | 05:10 am
Morally bankrupt ideologies go through three stages before reaching their full offensive maturity in our political culture. What begin as recognized evils become justifiable or necessary evils before...
War of 1812 in paper (how quaint) 18 Jan 2012 | 03:02 am
The paperback edition of my book Perilous Fight, about the of War of 1812 at sea, is being released today. “A rousing story . . . Budiansky writes with sure and vivid command.” —Evan Thomas, Washing...
You're fired! 11 Jan 2012 | 05:47 am
Energized with their newfound enthusiasm for class warfare (you can always tell an amateur), the Republican candidates were making much of Romney's "gaffe" yesterday in which, speaking of the supposed...
You can be a historian, too 19 Dec 2011 | 10:21 am
Professor Gingrich was at it again last week flashing his Official Historian's Membership Badge, this time to explain why President Historian Gingrich, "just like Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR,...
The cartoon professor 13 Dec 2011 | 04:33 am
The ignoramus wing of the Republican Party has for some time now been purveying a caricature of the intellectual as someone who is elitist, arrogant, smugly certain, impractical, and out of touch with...
The dim ages 22 Nov 2011 | 03:16 am
I used to think that science education would make people more rational and scientific. Now, in the fullness of age and experience, I can see that all it has done is to offer new arenas for people to a...
