The American Scene

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May 2008
17: Dud of Personality {3} by James Poulos
17: the authority Leon Kass forgot to cite {0} by Alan Jacobs
16: Unhappy Hours {2} by Peter Suderman
16: Three Quick Points About the California Ruling {3} by Noah Millman
16: all's right with the world {1} by Alan Jacobs
16: Dignity, Always Dignity {10} by Noah Millman
16: Sports Quote of the Week {0} by Michael Brendan Dougherty
16: Poor Ben {0} by Peter Suderman
16: Conservatives and Gay Marriage {10} by Jim Manzi
15: ethics by Pinker {24} by Alan Jacobs
15: Who Nose? {3} by Peter Suderman
15: One Of These Things Is Exactly Like the Other {1} by Peter Suderman
15: Faith in the All-Encompassing Magical Love Bubble {14} by James Poulos
13: Faith in the Synapse {9} by Michael Brendan Dougherty
13: That'll Put the Lotion In The Basket {8} by Reihan Salam
13: A Good Price to Pay {12} by Michael Brendan Dougherty
13: No Age {7} by Peter Suderman
13: HB-NO? {1} by Peter Suderman
13: bias {13} by Alan Jacobs
12: Hillary's Bamboo Ceiling {1} by Matt Frost
12: Is Harvard Just a Tax-Free Hedge Fund? {24} by Jim Manzi
12: Italogermania {7} by Reihan Salam
11: Clone Harvard {21} by Reihan Salam
11: Gore-Lieberman Grudge Match {4} by Reihan Salam
11: Redbelt {7} by Peter Suderman
11: get your ridicule here {7} by Alan Jacobs
11: The Cameron Critique {3} by Reihan Salam
11: MacDonald's over-egged pudding {6} by Alan Jacobs
10: Why I Love Ariel Levy {0} by Reihan Salam
10: A Terrible Bind {3} by Reihan Salam
10: I Went Too Far {2} by Reihan Salam
10: A Defense of Cameronism {3} by Reihan Salam
10: Redbelt is My New Favorite Movie {0} by Reihan Salam
10: Hung Out to Dry {0} by Peter Suderman
10: David Brooks and the Politics of Meaning {8} by Peter Suderman
10: Hurray for Me! {2} by Reihan Salam
10: It Takes Four Kinds {1} by Cameo Appearance
10: Architectonica (a Rule 12(b)(3) violation) {9} by Cameo Appearance
10: Follow You Down {0} by Cameo Appearance
10: Give Kids the Vote! {45} by Cameo Appearance
10: Millennial Messianism {4} by Matt Frost
09: Reihan's May Mixtape {6} by Reihan Salam
09: English English: More Cheap Laughs {0} by James Poulos
09: The Real Iron Man {0} by Peter Suderman
09: Stop, Speed Racer! {6} by Peter Suderman
09: great moments in higher education {0} by Alan Jacobs
09: the manifesto that isn't {14} by Alan Jacobs
09: On Point {3} by Matt Feeney
08: On Virtue, Personal and Public {6} by Matt Frost
08: Happy Israel Independence Day {1} by Noah Millman
08: down under {2} by Alan Jacobs
07: Zakaria II: Am I Crazy? {7} by Jim Manzi
07: Denver Vice {4} by James Poulos
07: A Post-American World? {7} by Jim Manzi
07: Thunderbull {6} by James Poulos
07: Why Can't We All Just Get Along {2} by Peter Suderman
06: Hillary Clinton Gives a Speech {1} by Peter Suderman
06: Democratizing Snobbery {9} by Peter Suderman
06: Obama I, King of the Grup People {3} by James Poulos
06: Scarlett Fever {2} by James Poulos
05: Classifying Myself {3} by Reihan Salam
05: Video Games, Grand Theft Auto, and the Future of Technology {2} by Peter Suderman
05: In Defense of the Superhero Film {3} by Peter Suderman
05: You Don't Have to Sit Through the Whole Thing {0} by Peter Suderman
05: Where Social Science Hits the Wall {1} by Matt Frost
05: Is Santogold Opposed to Barack Obama? {3} by Reihan Salam
04: Disagreeing, Respectfully, with Spencer {12} by Reihan Salam
03: Absurdonationalism {1} by James Poulos
02: Sex and the Single Superpower {2} by Noah Millman
02: Stomp and Shout {0} by Reihan Salam
02: Show Me the Science {26} by Jim Manzi
02: the bonds of community {22} by Alan Jacobs
02: Pumping Iron {2} by Peter Suderman
02: Should Democrats Go On Fox? {14} by Peter Suderman
02: '80s Hair {2} by James Poulos
01: Who Needs History Books? {1} by Peter Suderman
01: The Twitter Battle, and the Genius of John Dickerson {6} by Peter Suderman
01: and then there's this {4} by Alan Jacobs
01: Miley Roundup {0} by James Poulos
01: now's your chance {0} by Alan Jacobs
April 2008
30: Taking the Fallows Challenge {2} by Noah Millman
30: Yes, I Think Less Of Him Now {12} by Noah Millman
30: Does McCain Have a Domestic Agenda? {0} by Noah Millman
30: 100 Years War {4} by Noah Millman
30: Can The Optimum Carbon Tax Possibly Be Zero? {11} by Jim Manzi
30: The Anarchist Subtext of Harold and Kumar 2 {2} by Reihan Salam
29: Mark Schmitt on the Limits of McCainism {0} by Reihan Salam
29: Throwing Money at Bitter White People {7} by Reihan Salam
29: What's This? {0} by Peter Suderman
29: McCain vs. the Ideologues {21} by Reihan Salam
29: Takin' it to the Tubes {0} by James Poulos
29: The Second World {0} by Matt Frost
29: Is 8 Ball Inflation-Proof? {4} by Matt Frost
29: Is 80 Proof Recession Proof? {1} by Peter Suderman
28: Guilt By Association {27} by Noah Millman
28: Men at Work {3} by Reihan Salam
27: Hella Coachella {5} by James Poulos
27: Doesn't Like Hairy Feet {4} by Peter Suderman
26: In a World Without Rules... {9} by Peter Suderman
26: Paradise Found {6} by Reihan Salam
26: The Case for Infosocialism {3} by Reihan Salam
26: Double Trouble {1} by James Poulos
25: Policymaking vs. Personality {4} by Peter Suderman
24: Mysterious Relationships {2} by Peter Suderman
24: Is Charlie Kaufman Trying Too Hard? {0} by Peter Suderman
23: Feeling Healthy {10} by Peter Suderman
23: That'll Get Your Heart Started {0} by Peter Suderman
23: how do you handle a hungry man? {6} by Alan Jacobs
23: I'll tell you whether you're happy, chump {16} by Alan Jacobs
23: Robocopping {9} by Noah Millman
23: Shulchan Oreych {11} by Noah Millman
23: Goodness Gracious Great Balls Of Fire! {0} by Noah Millman
23: Relativity of Theories {21} by Noah Millman
23: Pantheism Watch {11} by James Poulos
23: Fun With Movement Conservatism {3} by James Poulos
22: The Frat-Boy Candidate? {4} by Peter Suderman
22: Interpreting Robert Downey Jr. {18} by Reihan Salam
22: 2:42 {2} by Reihan Salam
22: Slippery Richard Florida {1} by Reihan Salam
22: The Tragic End of The Burg {1} by Reihan Salam
22: Brian Leiter Has Principles {16} by Reihan Salam
22: Re-regulate the Friendly Skies? {4} by Reihan Salam
22: Florida Politics {1} by Peter Suderman
22: Pink Police Paradox {0} by James Poulos
21: Hotheads {0} by Jim Manzi
21: The Mila Conundrum (not a thriller) {3} by Matt Feeney
21: A Fool for the Dodos {3} by Peter Suderman
21: Top 5 _____ {9} by Peter Suderman
21: Beckett Does Rose {2} by Peter Suderman
21: Liberal Faith, Liberal Feelings {1} by James Poulos
20: A Little Too Ironic {3} by James Poulos
20: When Good Ideas Make Bad Laws {0} by James Poulos
20: whacky {9} by Alan Jacobs
18: The Repatriates {1} by Reihan Salam
18: Gessen on Dating {1} by Reihan Salam
18: Chocolate Reihan {3} by Reihan Salam
18: my new motto {4} by Alan Jacobs
18: Malkin Anxiety {7} by Reihan Salam
18: The Paunch Vote {0} by Peter Suderman
18: Like Medvedev, Like Putin {0} by James Poulos
18: Baracky: Almost Reason Enough to Vote for Obama {12} by Reihan Salam
18: That's Rich {2} by James Poulos
17: N.W.A. in the Park {6} by Peter Suderman
17: How Much Is Your Major Worth? {2} by Peter Suderman
17: Hodgepodge of Banality {3} by James Poulos
17: Some Enchanted Bureaucracy {2} by James Poulos
16: They Eat Their Young {4} by Peter Suderman
16: Self-Portrait {7} by Reihan Salam
15: Pink Police State Watch: Upward Bear Edition {0} by James Poulos
15: Spielberg's Ghost {6} by Peter Suderman
15: Now, More Than Ever {0} by Peter Suderman
15: 30 Seconds to Mush {3} by James Poulos
14: Reihan's Been Away {0} by Reihan Salam
14: Don’t Disperse Me Bro {20} by Jim Manzi
14: Putting the 'Mis' in Imperial Misadventures {1} by James Poulos
13: Formalism Still Running Amok {1} by Jim Manzi
13: D.C. Monument Menaced by Libertarian Dancers! {19} by Peter Suderman
11: supercuts {2} by Alan Jacobs
11: An Alien Encounter {0} by James Poulos
11: New Jersey and Yon, Perfect Together {2} by Jim Manzi
11: With a Name Like Gerson, it's Got to be Spurious {2} by James Poulos
10: The Trucker-Professor Market {0} by Matt Frost
10: W.W.J.R.D. (What Would John Rawls Do?) {10} by Noah Millman
10: Young Turks {1} by Peter Suderman
10: Arik McCain {6} by Noah Millman
10: What Do You Call A Guy Who Thinks He Was Jack The Ripper In A Previous Life? {4} by Noah Millman
10: Storks Bring Babies {3} by Jim Manzi
10: tweet ontology {3} by Alan Jacobs
10: Written As I Am About To Flee The Country {0} by Daniel Larison
09: Family Feud {0} by Jim Manzi
09: Dead As Disco {1} by Peter Suderman
09: An Awkward Question For Patriotic Anti-Nationalists {12} by Noah Millman
09: I Have A New Hero: Uwe Boll {1} by Reihan Salam
09: Is it Foolhardy to be Family-Friendly? {1} by Reihan Salam
09: On Air Travel {3} by Matt Frost
09: Nazi Kitsch's New Low {2} by James Poulos
08: What, But Not Why {0} by Peter Suderman
08: 13 Ways of Blegging About a Poem {4} by Noah Millman
08: Sean Wilentz is Being Silly {0} by Reihan Salam
08: The Thermals Are Wonderful {4} by Reihan Salam
08: And Now, A Question of Etiquette {7} by Peter Suderman
08: Mightier Than The Penn {1} by Peter Suderman
08: presentism {6} by Alan Jacobs
08: A Story That Doesn't Involve Zombies {1} by Reihan Salam
08: Fish Spins Derrida (in his grave) {11} by Matt Feeney
07: Drink and Food {1} by James Poulos
07: Something Happen Already! {0} by Peter Suderman
07: Absolut Commodification {2} by James Poulos
07: Next They'll Be Playing Spin the Bottle {0} by Peter Suderman
06: Atheism is Just the Beginning {22} by James Poulos
05: More Than Meets The Eye {0} by Peter Suderman
04: Even Paranoid Stylists Have Enemies {8} by Noah Millman
04: firing Yoo? {12} by Alan Jacobs
04: Still Coming {3} by Noah Millman
03: in memoriam {15} by Alan Jacobs
03: Puts a Smile on My Face {0} by Peter Suderman
03: Huh? {4} by Jim Manzi
03: Libertarian Paternalism {8} by Jim Manzi
03: My Hit Single {9} by Reihan Salam
03: Sexy. Bloody. Hilarious. If you say so. {4} by Peter Suderman
03: Score One for Europe {0} by James Poulos
02: Wormholes {2} by Graeme Wood
02: Hate the Game, Not the Player {10} by Jim Manzi
01: Free Trade for Me, but Not for Thee {0} by Reihan Salam
01: Roberts and Alito and Roe {3} by Reihan Salam
01: Thoughts on the New G.I. Bill {1} by Reihan Salam
01: Who Will Inherit the Clinton Coalition? {15} by Reihan Salam
01: The Moderate Chasm {1} by Reihan Salam
01: Revolt of the Gawkerites? {2} by Reihan Salam
01: NATO: You Can Stop the Bum Rush {0} by James Poulos
01: Want to Play a Game? {0} by Peter Suderman
01: Putting a Certain Finger in the Upright and Locked Position {2} by James Poulos
01: I'm Living a Lie: Gmail Custom Time {6} by James Poulos
01: good news from Zimbabwe? {1} by Alan Jacobs
March 2008
31: Like a discipline (without the discipline) {1} by Matt Feeney
31: Bullying Teachers and Teachers Bullying {2} by Reihan Salam
31: Include Me Out {4} by Noah Millman
31: this literally drives me crazy {19} by Alan Jacobs
31: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio {0} by Jim Manzi
31: Marking My Book {2} by Noah Millman
31: Leviathan Unchained {0} by Matt Frost
31: Who's Afraid Of Joe Lieberman? {0} by Daniel Larison
31: I Am Not A Nationalist (And Here Are A Few Reasons Why) {0} by Daniel Larison
31: Jhumpa Lahiri's Provincialism, or Rabbit Masala {6} by Reihan Salam
31: A Music Tax That Works {2} by Reihan Salam
31: From one civil war to the next {1} by Reihan Salam
31: A Heartwarming Wedding Announcement {3} by Reihan Salam
31: Scary Lieberman? {8} by Reihan Salam
30: Cockburn on Iraq {0} by Reihan Salam
30: 2 May 2005 {0} by Reihan Salam
30: Daniel Gross on David Brooks {1} by Reihan Salam
30: I'm a nationalist {4} by Reihan Salam
29: Give Your Heart to Freedom {6} by Matt Frost
29: something I can't do {19} by Alan Jacobs
28: Full Stop {7} by Peter Suderman
28: The Advancement of Man {1} by Peter Suderman
27: The Vasty Deep {9} by Reihan Salam
27: Reihan Calrissian {4} by Reihan Salam
27: Let's Trade Democratic Parties {2} by Reihan Salam
27: Mixtapes n Mixtapes {0} by Reihan Salam
27: Jobs worse than yours {1} by Graeme Wood
27: Hulu, Anybody Home? {4} by Peter Suderman
27: Do-Over, Done Over {8} by Matt Frost
27: No Creed But... Well, How About Just No Creed {7} by Peter Suderman
26: The Hills Have Eyes (And Faces!) {2} by Peter Suderman
26: Half-Truth {12} by Jim Manzi
25: Mend It, Don't End It: Affirmative Action for The Penny {18} by James Poulos
25: Coin of the Realm {2} by Peter Suderman
25: Finer Things Club {0} by Reihan Salam
25: Lessons From China {0} by Matt Frost
25: Intellectualism, Expertise, and the Risk of Idiocy {4} by James Poulos
25: That Atavistic No-War Mentality {3} by James Poulos
24: Top Ten Problems {1} by Reihan Salam
24: How to Think About Change Congress {0} by Reihan Salam
24: Atlas Shrugsenfreude {2} by Reihan Salam
24: Core Curriculum {4} by Reihan Salam
24: When Is Optimism Depressing? {0} by James Poulos
24: Oneposium on the Democracy Symposium {0} by Reihan Salam
24: One Law To Rule Them All {14} by Noah Millman
24: The Softest Landing {1} by Matt Frost
24: Alternate Realities: Who Needs 'Em? {0} by Peter Suderman
24: Imitation of Cheesus {1} by James Poulos
24: Johnny Boy {1} by Peter Suderman
24: Machine Gun {2} by Peter Suderman
24: Master and Slave Morality in Iraq {1} by James Poulos
24: William Dalrymple on Pakistan {2} by Reihan Salam
24: Kaki King, The Virgins, and Alan Wilkis {0} by Reihan Salam
23: W.W.G.W.F.H.D. (What Would Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Do?) {2} by Noah Millman
23: The Third Way To Kill Blackula: A Veepstake Through The Heart {1} by Noah Millman
23: You Can Talk All You Want To But It's Different Than It Was {1} by Noah Millman
22: מפני חטאינו גלינו מארצנו {8} by Noah Millman
22: Celebrity {5} by Matt Frost
22: Listen Up! {0} by Peter Suderman
22: Chinese Torture {4} by James Poulos
21: The Trial of StuffWhitePeopleLike.com {8} by Reihan Salam
21: Stuff White People Like #1: Huge Book Advances {0} by Peter Suderman
21: Not Comcastic {1} by Peter Suderman
21: Wild Ponies {0} by James Poulos
20: Lost: How, What, and Why {5} by Peter Suderman
20: your better is driving me up the wall {7} by Alan Jacobs
20: Credit Where Credit Is Due {2} by Reihan Salam
20: White Resentment In Action {1} by James Poulos
20: El Disastre {4} by James Poulos
20: The Martingale’s Song {0} by Jim Manzi
20: Actually, It's Quite Easy Being Cheesy {1} by Peter Suderman
20: Too Weird? {0} by Peter Suderman
20: Minghella's Game {0} by Peter Suderman
20: The Speech vs. The Future {2} by James Poulos
20: DMX's America {2} by Reihan Salam
20: Did We Get Iraq Wrong? {31} by Reihan Salam
19: Black Conservatism {8} by Reihan Salam
19: Verizon Yawns {0} by Peter Suderman
19: Obama and Community {0} by Peter Suderman
19: honesty in playlists {3} by Alan Jacobs
18: Heart = Possessed {3} by Peter Suderman
18: The Leads are Weak! {0} by Peter Suderman
18: Organista! {1} by James Poulos
17: The Left's Central Problem {15} by Reihan Salam
17: Picking Up Nickels in Front of a Steamroller {3} by Jim Manzi
17: The Playwright as Pundit {2} by Peter Suderman
17: Technical Difficulties {2} by Peter Suderman
17: How I Learned to Drive {1} by Peter Suderman
17: Won't You Be My Boo? {0} by Reihan Salam
16: I Shot the Sheriff, But I Didn't Pop the Ecstasy {0} by Reihan Salam
16: Are Ye Not As Children Of The Ethiopians Unto Me? {0} by Noah Millman
16: The Little World {2} by Noah Millman
16: I Hate StuffWhitePeopleLike.com {7} by Reihan Salam
16: 2-Dollar Broker {5} by Noah Millman
14: Fun With Hyperbole {1} by James Poulos
14: More on Prostitution and the Law {3} by Jim Manzi
14: Hillary Clinton and the Power of Relentless Policy Tedium {0} by Peter Suderman
14: Be a Good Sport... {5} by Peter Suderman
13: Why I Am Not A Scientist {3} by James Poulos
13: Like The Odd Couple Directed By David Lynch {0} by Noah Millman
13: Ra Ra Riot In the Streets {1} by Reihan Salam
12: W.W.J.B.D. (What Would Josephine Butler Do?) {1} by Noah Millman
12: Curb Your Fine Art Enthusiasm {0} by James Poulos
12: Cammy Patrician vs. Lunchbucket Hill {1} by James Poulos
12: Economic Inclusion and Economic Inequality {5} by Reihan Salam
11: take it as a challenge, if you want {0} by Alan Jacobs
11: Republican Disaster Watch {1} by Reihan Salam
11: Goodwin on Lying, Cheating Spitzer {4} by Reihan Salam
11: Preemptive Spitzer Correction! {1} by Reihan Salam
11: All Politics Is Local {3} by Noah Millman
11: More Diamonds for Your Money {2} by Reihan Salam
11: savvy {7} by Alan Jacobs
11: connected lives redux {9} by Alan Jacobs
11: Generational Thoughts in Austin {1} by Reihan Salam
10: phone for you {0} by Alan Jacobs
10: Come Get Me {0} by Peter Suderman
10: You Know Things Are Bad Out There On The Street {0} by Noah Millman
10: Completely Objective Journalism {4} by Jim Manzi
10: Support Jonze-Eggers '08! {0} by Peter Suderman
09: Fallows on the Chinese Military {3} by Matt Frost
09: always on shuffle {7} by Alan Jacobs
08: Don't Bank On It {1} by Peter Suderman
07: Reihan Channels Samantha Power {9} by Reihan Salam
07: