by jpitney | May 20, 2024 | Congress, Economic Policy, Uncategorized
Don Wolfensberger, “Budget Act dead at 50 — or is it incognito?,” The Hill, May 16, 2024. In 30 of the last 49 years, Congress has not met the April 15 deadline for approving a budget resolution. The last time Congress completed action on all 12 appropriations by Oct....
by jpitney | Apr 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
On November 12, 1940. Churchill delivered a eulogy for Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons. It is a masterpiece of showing grace to a political foe who had made ghastly mistakes. The fierce and bitter controversies which hung around him in recent times were...
by jpitney | Apr 24, 2024 | Higher Education, Middle East, Uncategorized
The 2023 Campus Expression Survey (CES) from the Heterodox Academy: Many students are at least somewhat reluctant to discuss numerous controversial topics, with 47% of CES respondents being reluctant to discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 45% being reluctant to...
by jpitney | Apr 14, 2024 | civic virtue, Civility, Democracy, Populism, Uncategorized
Brooks, Arthur C. “America’s Crisis of Civic Virtue.” Journal of Democracy 35, no. 2 (2024): 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2024.a922831. The connection of rising narcissism to incivility is straightforward. Researchers have found that...
by jpitney | Apr 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
At LAT, Jaweed Kaleem and Caroline Petrow-Cohen report on recent events in Claremont, where students at a pro-Palestine rally chanted “Palestine will be free — from the river to the sea.” The ongoing protests have elevated fears among some Jewish...
by jpitney | Apr 2, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Uncategorized
Nahal Toosi at Politico: There are few bastions of bipartisanship left in Congress, but the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission was one. That is, until the fight over Brazil.More than a year after supporters of right-wing former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro...
