This is a really good essay from Mark Lilla on the evolution of conservative politics in the United States. He explains that the important change has been the rise of redemptive reactionaries: people ‘who think the only way forward is to destroy what history has given us and wait for a new order to emerge [...]
As a tie-in to my link to the Lessig video I posted yesterday, here’s Ezra Klien’s review of Lessig’s ‘Republic, Lost’ for the New York Review of Books. Klein isn’t so convinced that money is the root problem with US politics.
I wish I could employ Lawrence Lessig just to make presentations every day.
Since the Democratic Party’s primary process began in 2007, Andrew Sullivan has been arguing that no politician is better at playing the long game than Barack Obama. Here is the argument in distilled form.
Feel like the Obama sheen has worn off and you’re looking for a new messiah? Elizabeth Warren may be that special someone.
The website Nippon.com recently carried an interview with former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone where one of Japan’s most distinguished politicians opined on the problems with the current political predicament Japan finds itself in. As a previous prime minister, as well as someone who has been around the block a few more times than I have, [...]
Just a great piece by Republican outcast David Frum on what’s wrong with the GOP. Terrific and terrifying.
Hard to understand what the Occupy Wall Street protesters are so upset about.
Lemony Snicket went and observed the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. Scroll down.
Hilarious dubs of politicians saying completely nonsensical things.