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6 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Unfortunately, that self-reckoning quickly skidded off the rails, with the corporate media giants deciding that their right-wing critics were right all along and that news reporters “just don’t understand the Real America. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
I’m pro-democracy, and I don’t want to be on the wrong side of history,” is inspiring, to be sure, but to expect it is beyond naïve. [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
If there is a first time for everything, Klein chose the worst possible moment to imagine that the inside-the-Beltway “we don’t dare” consensus among some Democrats is the right way to respond to an unprecedented crisis. [read post]
17 May 2023, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Politico also quotes McConnell thus: “I don’t think it’s very complicated. [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Student groups (acting within their rights) often invite people who don’t deserve an audience; student groups sometimes are unsophisticated about which speakers have anything interesting and defensible to say; and student groups are often manipulated by outside organizations that have political agendas but no real commitment to meaningful exploration and discovery of knowledge, ideas, empirical data, etc. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The political right has long relied on empty phrases that, endlessly repeated, could be counted on to convey their dislike of liberal ideas without in fact bothering to engage with those ideas. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Fearmongering about the national debt is so common in the US that we often barely even notice when it is happening. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
I have been following economic and political discussion about deficits and debt for my entire adult life, and I can say without fear of contradiction that not one person has ever said anything close to this: “Well, don’t forget about that $31 trillion number, cuz that’s a big deal. [read post]
7 Sep 2022, 10:03 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Federal Taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. [read post]
2 Sep 2022, 8:04 am by Michael Geist
Then there is Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage Chris Bittle, who after apologizing and deleting a tweet suggesting I am racist, turned to misinformation when he told a reporter that he was “bullied by a bully and got baited into a tweet” despite the fact that I don’t follow him on twitter, never tagged him in a tweet, and muted his account months ago. [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
I thus pointed out that it would in fact be arguably more interesting if they were to tell me that “professors just don’t see it” or that for some other reason I failed to understand that there was a real problem. [read post]
3 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There is nothing wrong with saying, “You know, right now, I just don’t want to celebrate Russian culture. [read post]
23 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” That is, every time a person uses any of those terms, we should ask: What does this person actually mean, other than “I’m going to put a negative label on this thing I don’t like”? [read post]
9 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
President Biden’s poll numbers have declined over the last few months, and although there are many competing explanations for why that has happened, plenty of pundits (of all ideological leanings) are blaming his struggles in part on the recent increase in inflation. [read post]