George Will’s post-mortem: As this is being written, Republicans seem to have lost a total of 55 House and 11 Senate seats in the last two elections. These are the worst Republican results in consecutive elections since the Depression-era elections of 1930 and 1932 (153 and 22), which presaged exile from the presidency until 1953.… Continue reading
This is hilarious: You Suck at PhotoShop…. Via Slate.
Rod Dreher sums it up: This election represents not an affirmative embrace of neoliberalism but rather a repudiation of the Republican Party and a certain kind of conservatism. It’s important for the left to recognize this in order to avoid the temptation to overreach in the heady Democratic days to come. One-party government didn’t work… Continue reading
Thanks to Siris for putting us in mind of Plato on this election day. Socrates, in Plato’s Gorgias: No, Callicles, the very bad men come from the class of those who have power. And yet in that very class there may arise good men, and worthy of all admiration they are, for where there is… Continue reading
When Scientists Speak Ill of their ColleaguesLarry Moran has a great post on how John Maynard Smith embarrassed himself when he disparaged the work of Stephen Jay Gould.