It took 364 days for Americans to defiantly reject the agenda of the Obama administration.  We should not confuses ourselves into believing that the rejection was centered upon hitherto unexpected policy initiatives, event-shaped reactions, or Oval Office induced brainwaves.  No, the policies rejected were the administration's plans for health care ( Read more... )

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Nudge-ocracy
Barack Obama's new theory of the state.

Franklin Foer and Noam Scheiber,  The New Republic  Published: Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Barack Obama has the type of mind--orderly, analytical, well-read--that takes naturally to the study of ideas. But he's always been uncomfortable describing himself in ideological terms. Is he a liberal ( Read more... )

Saw this great film tonight with some dear friends at the wonderful Arclight in Sherman Oaks.  What a wonderful experience to enjoy in this city of films.  Every human being alive needs to see this on a big screen at some point in their life.  It is one of the great masterpieces of modern art.  O'Toole is stunning in his debut role.  And Lean's ( Read more... )

I got the very sad news this morning that my dear friend Bill Wertz died of a massive coronary yesterday morning (June 5th, 2009).  He was 54.  I remember him fondly, and will always remember the summer I spent with he and his long-time partner of 28 years, Sean Farrell, in Spruce Creek, PA.  He was kind enough to take me on a tour of Gettysburg, ( Read more... )

Kenji Yoshino is a legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. Formerly, he was the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His work involves Constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature, and Japanese law and ( Read more... )

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