I too was sad and lonely today knowing that I wouldn’t soon be with thousands and thousands of political scientists. TRUE GRIT STUDIES took a hit from which it might take a year or two to recover. Here’s another part, which isn’t meant to flow from the previous part: Mattie . . . . Continue Reading »
Though I don’t think they will matter much in the long run and I regret staying up to watch them, 1. When it comes to Ann Romney, it is like that saying credited to Lincoln, “That’s the kind of thing you will like, if you like that sort of thing.” She did a good job of . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, it was just a conference that didn’t go, and these things have their annoying and ugly aspects, which David Brooks once described accurately in his Bourgeois Bohemians book; nor, I am having to go through a tropical storm/hurricane, as the residents of New Orleans currently are, but . . . . Continue Reading »
Well enough worryin’ and map-surveyin’ for the moment, let’s at least get the tunes set. Impossible to even hope to survey the Jazz contributions—just stand around in the NOLA airport diggin’ the vintage Pops—so we’ll start instead with 50s-era, or 50s-esque . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, our Carl is displaying TRUE GRIT by driving to New Orleans for the APSA meeting in the face of HURRICANE ISAAC. What was the APSA thinking in going to the BIG EASY in one of its uneasy months? As of now, I’m still planning to get there for part of the meeting. But there’s no way . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Ferguson tries, really tries, to dig into the Romney literature to find out why he dislikes him, to find the arrogant thread running through his life that he did so memorably with Newt Gingrich and others . . . and he comes up with: nothing, except plenty of evidence of Mitt taking Matthew . . . . Continue Reading »
So, the American Political Science Association annual meeting this year is in the Big Easy. Peter Lawler and I have a panel on the 2010 TRUE GRIT movie, 8am Saturday for those of you who will be there. Peter’s paper is called “Stoicism and the South,” or something along those lines. . . . . Continue Reading »
We move now on my list of best pop music films from THE DOORS to ALMOST FAMOUS, a natural progression in rock time to about 1973—the next step will be to THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO. 1) DISCO and ALMOST FAMOUS have two points of comparison. First, both are about the ineradicable desire, even . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I’m sort of moved to speak up for the populist conservative media (talk radio, Fox News - and Bret Baier and Chris Wallace on Fox are good by any standard.) They give a substantial fraction of the public the information and reinforcement they want. They make money. They make . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I’m in Baltimore as a discussion leader on a conference on utopias—if anyone knows what’s really going on Aeschylus’ PROMETHEUS BOUND you need to let me now by 930 in the morning. It is true that all utopias that are real projects for reform are about “blind . . . . Continue Reading »
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