“This is something we will not give up on because we are not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.” – Paul Ryan, on his budget proposal What more needs to be said. These are strange times we are living i...
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was an inveterate U.S. foreign policy antagonist. He was a true master in this art. Ahmadinejad’s amateurish taunting is bush league in comparison. It is undeniable that over a decade in power, Chavez w...
Jon Huntsman, a former governor of my home state, sure does look like an opportunist right now. After losing the battle to become the business-friendly Mormon presidential candidate (admittedly one he should have won) Huntsman emerged weakened. He ha...
“This is something we will not give up on because we are not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.” – Paul Ryan, on his budget proposal What more needs to be said. These are strange times we are living i...
“This is something we will not give up on because we are not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.” – Paul Ryan, on his budget proposal What more needs to be said. These are strange times we are living i...
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was an inveterate U.S. foreign policy antagonist. He was a true master in this art. Ahmadinejad’s amateurish taunting is bush league in comparison. It is undeniable that over a decade in power, Chavez w...
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was an inveterate U.S. foreign policy antagonist. He was a true master in this art. Ahmadinejad’s amateurish taunting is bush league in comparison. It is undeniable that over a decade in power, Chavez w...
Jon Huntsman, a former governor of my home state, sure does look like an opportunist right now. After losing the battle to become the business-friendly Mormon presidential candidate (admittedly one he should have won) Huntsman emerged weakened. He ha...
Jon Huntsman, a former governor of my home state, sure does look like an opportunist right now. After losing the battle to become the business-friendly Mormon presidential candidate (admittedly one he should have won) Huntsman emerged weakened. He ha...
I am not sure what politics is exactly. Nonetheless, I know it’s both important and largely unrelated to the topically clean-cut and morally innocuous picture seen too often in political science. This is the model that hunts empirical terrain for m...
I am not sure what politics is exactly. Nonetheless, I know it’s both important and largely unrelated to the topically clean-cut and morally innocuous picture seen too often in political science. This is the model that hunts empirical terrain for m...
Catalunya and Euskadi (Basque Country) want to leave the dominion of the state of Spain. This is as well known as the time of day. What is not as settled is the “why”. There are of course your classic reasons: The Basques pre-date God and speak a...
Catalunya and Euskadi (Basque Country) want to leave the dominion of the state of Spain. This is as well known as the time of day. What is not as settled is the “why”. There are of course your classic reasons: The Basques pre-date God and speak a...
A strikingly common cornerstone of right-libertarianism (and, correspondingly, the modern American libertarian movement) is the assertion that “taxes are immoral.” This argument can take a number of forms, some significantly stronger than others....
A strikingly common cornerstone of right-libertarianism (and, correspondingly, the modern American libertarian movement) is the assertion that “taxes are immoral.” This argument can take a number of forms, some significantly stronger than others....
I would like to introduce BPR’s newest online column, entitled Give Up The Goods. Give Up The Goods is anchored around the premise that bringing some theoretical insights to the discussion of politics can produce some interesting results. Too o...
I would like to introduce BPR’s newest online column, entitled Give Up The Goods. Give Up The Goods is anchored around the premise that bringing some theoretical insights to the discussion of politics can produce some interesting results. Too o...
I would like to think that this year’s elections have rendered a negative verdict on the practice of political pledges. Few are unfamiliar with the now classic hand-raising (or lack thereof) moment in the GOP primaries in which all of the candi...
I would like to think that this year’s elections have rendered a negative verdict on the practice of political pledges. Few are unfamiliar with the now classic hand-raising (or lack thereof) moment in the GOP primaries in which all of the candi...
The Northeast region of the United States just experienced a late autumn hurricane. This is not common. Nonetheless, we cannot make the following claim: climate change caused Hurricane Sandy. Why? We must remember the following: If we are to make a c...
The Northeast region of the United States just experienced a late autumn hurricane. This is not common. Nonetheless, we cannot make the following claim: climate change caused Hurricane Sandy. Why? We must remember the following: If we are to make a c...
A recent post at The New Inquiry does a commendable job of pinning down the strange political vantage point that is inhabited by the political meme. The writer, one Nathan Jurgenson, conducts a ...
A recent post at The New Inquiry does a commendable job of pinning down the strange political vantage point that is inhabited by the political meme. The writer, one Nathan Jurgenson, conducts a ...
Lately, the degree to which discourses of “objectivity” have dominated our political theatre is astounding. Everywhere one turns, he or she is confronted by a variety of appeals to some qualification outside the bound of “politics” and “par...
Lately, the degree to which discourses of “objectivity” have dominated our political theatre is astounding. Everywhere one turns, he or she is confronted by a variety of appeals to some qualification outside the bound of “politics” and “par...