Month: December 2015

Before I really knew anything about Islam or Saudi Arabia or Mecca or the Hajj, I was given a reading assignment in high school that gave me a (basically) first impression of those things. It was a letter than Malcolm X wrote in...

In the November/December issue of the Washington Monthly, journalist Chris Heller has a review of a new book on Lafayette. Sarah Vowell’s Lafayette in the Somewhat United States is “more an extended essay than a...

Before there was a Tea Party on the right, there was George Wallace on the left. Or George Wallace in the party of the left. Or something. I’m not sure George Wallace can be explained exactly, except to say that what...

Some stuff happened in the Senate today. It was all for show. It was all just posturing and posing and shameful bullshit. A complete waste of everyone’s time. A joke, really. Just assholery masquerading as...

It’s disgusting to watch how the Senate Republicans operate. It’s so important to them to pass a bill repealing ObamaCare that they can force the president to veto that they’ve pulled out all the stops to get...