After all this time, there is no obvious end in sight for Iraq’s post-election wrangling. Faction representatives have sojourned off to Riyadh and Tehran (word is the next trip will be to Ankara), and it seems like everyone is trying to gather support from the neighbors rather than negotiate for Iraq among themselves. With the exception perhaps of Turkey (which [...]
Here I am again, writing about political philosophy when I should be writing about early Freudian thought…or possibly about Hindu mythology or family stories…This one is brief, though, and I only include it because I want to pass along something that deserves a really wide readership. Noah Millman of The American Scene has written some basic “notes toward a new [...]
This is the sort of topic into which I normally don’t like to wade, but in the last couple weeks there have been two flare-ups around a public person’s ambiguous sexuality. First, a CBS blogger referred to possible SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan as “openly gay.” Since, if she is gay, she is not open, this prompted a harsh response from [...]
1. Apparently you just can’t dig deep enough into Stephen Ambrose’s academic misdeeds. According to the Deputy Director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Ambrose exaggerated the number of hours he spent interviewing the former president…by a factor of at least 100. 2. Every year, we talk about how every year college admissions are more selective. Kevin [...]
It remains to be seenwhether President Obama will tackle cap-and-trade, immigration reform, or financial reform (most likely) in the coming weeks. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’s immigration reform. Immigration reform efforts always seem to split along cultural lines, despite it being an issue that transcends such divisions. Let’s look at it in two lights. First, and most importantly, [...]
For those of you who don’t know, noted Penn professor Al Filreis has a blog and it’s really quite good. Among his recurring topics of interest is the changing nature of writing in the 21st century, particularly the implications for poetry and for education. Go here for his brief “manifesto,” entitled “Planning to Stay.” It’s the most provoking pedagogical musing [...]
Has anyone been getting fed up with the Obama for America listserve emails? The volume of the emails doesn’t bother me, its the content. They are tailored to be extremely manipulative and represent very complex issues in an extremely simple way. Both sides are guilty of this, I’m sure that if I were on any sort of Republican emailing list [...]
With a General Election looming across the Pond, most observers (myself included) have been predicting the return to power of the opposition Conservative (or Tory) Party. Labour, the party of Tony Blair and more recently Gordon Brown, has been held Downing Street since 1997, weathering a fierce contest in 2005 where they won a majority in the House of Commons [...]
Update: Ten minutes after I posted this, the DP posted their article. Pretty straight-ahead coverage. Penn has some big names and big connections, and it’s always gratifying to see them come together and discuss important things. The names at the David and Lyn Silfen Forum yesterday were Amy Gutmann (moderating), John Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, John DiIulio, Andrea Mitchell, and [...]
The future makeup of the Supreme Court has been the talk of the blogosphere of late, including here at ppr. I agree strongly with the idea underpinning my blog-colleague’s post. We need desperately to take the political venom out of the Judicial system. I can think of no other developed country where judges are so politicized. Even in a country [...]
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