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  • Meritocracy

    I remember back in the late ’90s when Ira Katznelson, an eminent political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a guest lecture to an economic philosophy class I was taking. It was a great lecture, made more so by the fact that the class was only about ten or twelve…

  • Jeff Sachs sense of humor

    [Sachs]Instead, the US should provide evidence of the chemical attacks to the UN; call on the Security Council to condemn the perpetrators; and refer such violations to the International Criminal Court. Moreover, the Obama administration should try to work with Russia and China to enforce the Chemical Weapons Convention. If…

  • Jesse Helms – the soul of the modern Republican Party

    Appearing on “Larry King Live” in 1995, Jesse Helms, then the senior senator from North Carolina, fielded a call from an unusual admirer. Helms deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, the caller gushed, “for everything you’ve done to help keep down the niggers.” Given the rank ugliness of the sentiment —…

  • DailyKos and the tradition of fictional instructions for President Obama

    Time to go nuclear over Obamacare—here’s one thing the White House must do – DailyKos Sun Sep 08, 2013 at 03:00 PM PD What must the White House do? Go nuclear like Fukashima, spilling millions of gallons of nuclear waste into the Pacific? Blow up Nagasaki? I can hardly wait…

  • New York Times shamefully deceptive Syria coverage

    Friday September 6, the supposedly liberal New York Times ran a front page story about the public’s lack of enthusiasm for President Obama’s proposal to take military action against the Sarin Gas using Assad Regime in Syria. This article has been widely reproduced in newspapers across the country. Reporter Michael…

  • Barack Obama’s crazy project

    Many people, including supporters of the President, don’t understand the crazy ambition of Barack Obama’s political project. He’s not trying to get some alphabet soup of programs passed or win on this or that issue, he is trying to fundamentally change the political climate in the USA, on an staggeringly…

  • Basics of international law – from 431 BC

    The Athenians explain international law to the people of Melos: Athenians. For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretences- either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us- and…

  • Thurgood Marshall’s unsentimental constitutionalism

    Remarks of Thurgood Marshall At The Annual Seminarof theSAN FRANCISCO PATENT AND TRADEMARK LAW ASSOCIATIONIn Maui, Hawaii May 6, 1987. Original : here 1987 marks the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution. A Commission has been established to coordinate the celebration. The official meetings, essay contests, and festivities have…

  • Nostalgia for Glass-Steagall is not a progressive finance policy

    Nostalgia for Glass-Steagall is not a progressive finance policy

    There are three main problems with our financial system: Glass-Steagall and other components of the ugly compromises involved in fixing the banking crisis of the Great Depression address exactly none of these problems. In fact, the banking regulatory system set up in the 1930s generated many of the problems we…

  • Left Wing America is SUFFERING

    This series of events, described in Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams, ought to jangle the nerves. It is, after all, an “if you see something, say something” story. Its main elements—racialized intelligence gathering, torture, extralegal investigation, and execution—are those of the shadow wars of the modern American imperium. What…