At the Democratic National Convention, U.S. President Obama claimed America's in "one of the worst economic crises in history" then called for "the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one." But his self-serving invocation of FDR is as unconvincing as his self-serving portrayal of the current crisis. Click here to read the rest.
Getting drawn into discussions of this supposed movie about Islam is a fool’s game. Who made it? Why? Is it the worst film ever? Does it even exist? None of that matters. Click here to read the rest.
For a person who hates politics, I sure can’t get enough of it. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, call your office. But my excuse for staring obsessively at things like the Republican National Convention is that government is important especially when it’s done badly. And right now its general air of dreary malevolence is a big part of the problem. Click here to read the rest.
Political conventions are strange tribal gatherings whose frequent emotional outbursts, frenzied responses to obscure issues and peculiar sense of embattled joy might prove upsetting to normal people. But for all their weirdness they are important tools of self-government because, at them, party insiders show you who they think they are. Click here to read the rest.