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Our Country

By Barth on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 2:52pm |
So many of the people with who we commune said it that we allowed ourselves to at least consider the possibility that the election of President Obama marked the end of the racial politics that had bedeviled the nation from...
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Right and Wrong, an addendum

By Barth on Sat, 08/14/2010 - 11:26pm |
It is unclear to me exactly what the White House is trying to say in the face of Peter King's blustering and other sad sacks impugning the comments the President made last night. There is no reason for him to...
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Right and Wrong

By Barth on Sat, 08/14/2010 - 5:53pm |
There are few independent economists (that is, someone who has not singed up as a partisan for any of the political arguments we have) who do not look at the situation we are in and does not see the need...
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Summer Vacation Reading

By Barth on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 3:13pm |
Legend has it that Thou must read Trashy Novels Whilst on a Beach, or otherwise vacationing, but some of us did the next best thing: we read about the decline and fall. Not Gibbon: too much heft in that even...
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Modern Times

By Barth on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 6:27pm |
I missed the McCarthy era. Technically speaking, I was around at the tail end of his tenure as ruler of the airwaves and print, but, as a new born, my access to those organs of communication was quite limited, and...
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Things That Spew

By Barth on Sat, 07/17/2010 - 5:07pm |
We all know now, after months of this, that oil which does not remain where nature placed it, or does not get "harvested" in a way where we can use it, spews. Apparently, after more than 80 days of continuous...
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If You Can't Say Anything Nice....

By Barth on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 11:43pm |
A week or so ago, a cellist named Dan Cho, a young husband and father who also covered soccer for a few publications in his spare time, drowned in Lake Geneva. I did not know him, but his death has...
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Fourth of July Guest Blogger: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

By Barth on Sun, 07/04/2010 - 12:44pm |
The following has appeared here in some form or another a few times. It is excerpted from the acceptance speech at the 1936 Democratic National Convention of our greatest President, but it has particular resonance on this glorious day of...
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How long will this war last?

By Barth on Wed, 06/30/2010 - 3:19pm |
We interrupt our work imposed radio silence to bring you this special bulletin from Sunday's Meet the Press. While all its guests, as usual, read their scripts and say exactly what you would expect them to say given who they...
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When there is no time to blog...

By Barth on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 5:59pm |
There is, thank goodness, Rachel Maddow to pick up the slack. And slack picking up is required this weekend, and probably the next two what with the demands made on a person's life outside these posts. (There is barely such...

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