Month: February 2009

I’ll have more to say on this later, but Nate Silver raises issues that deserve a thorough hashing out. As just a preliminary thought, it pays to think about the two progressivisms in terms of our history. The prior...

There are Democratic and Republican areas of the country that have nothing to do with North, South, East, or West. But it’s still true that the Democratic Party and Barack Obama are, by far, least popular in the South....

It’s possible to be an anti-choice Democrat but if your overriding reason for running for office is that you are appalled by the practice of abortion you should probably run as a Republican. It’s possible to be...

Do you think there is something fundamentally and culturally different about the South that makes it distinct and hard to politically reconcile with other regions of the country? If so, is it something all of us watching...

I’m kind of excited to be seeing Casablanca on the big screen this afternoon. I’ve seen the movie probably close to a dozen times, but I’ve never seen it in a movie theater. Seeing it in an old, traditional...