Month: October 2010

What a funny headline: Some Democrats uneasy with attacks on Chamber of Commerce. As if we didn’t know that. The Chamber is spending 75 million dollars to try to help the Republicans retake Congress, and we still have some...

I sympathize with Stanley Fish’s lamentation for the Humanities. The State University of New York at Albany (SUNY-Albany) has dropped French, Russian, Theater, and the Classics. They haven’t dropped them as core...

One of the more tiresome things in American politics is the Republicans’ insistence that they are for balanced budgets and lower government spending. They have a record, and their record is that they are only interested in...

Peter Diamond is good enough at economics to win a Nobel Prize, but not good enough for Richard Shelby to give him a confirmation vote on the Senate floor. For months now, Sen. Richard Shelby has been blocking the nomination of...