I’m with Shaviro on the magnitude of the scenario although with this post he does imply that Kerry would have staved off much of the future dystopia he alludes to. That is unlikely although it might have given us a common sense of hope. What is more …

Malcolm Gladwell’s “Getting Over It”: This is the difference between a novel written in the middle of the last century and a novel written at the end of the century. Somehow in the intervening decades our understanding of what it…

Steven Shaviro said he had nothing to say about the US election, but in explicating that says this: …59 million people voted for Bush in full consciousness of what they were doing. They were aware of the harms that they…

In the aftermath of the South Asia tsunamis, the Bush administration pathetically found itself spending more money on its second inauguration than it initially committed to disaster relief. Even now, its contributions are not especially impressive. I d…