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Population Control: Gaza v. China

Following Kramer's comments the other day, an interesting conversation has arisen that compares Kramer's proposal to end pre-natal subsidies with China's one child policy. The...

What 1937 can tell us about today

I was taking a Sporcle quiz the other day (something I do often) on all of TIME Magazine's Persons of the Year throughout its...

Brownie Points for John McCain

I remember the day when John McCain used to be that Republican that we Democrats kind of liked. Then came the 2008 presidential campaign. I can't...

Why I’m Leaving the Country (A Loving Spoof of Evan Bayh)

In Saturday's New York Times, Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) penned a long article entitled “Why I'm Leaving the Senate,” citing “institutional inertia” and frustration...

Weighing In: Gen Ed and Religion

I hope I'm not too late to the party, but I wanted to address Sam and Kathy on Newsweek's Harvard and religion article. They...

Jobs Bill, Cloture, Kabuki

So the Senate passed a jobs bill today by a vote of 70-28. In policy terms, this isn't big news. The CBO estimates the bill...

Weighing In: A Simple Solution to a Simple Problem

On February 3, Martin Kramer, visiting scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center, gave a six-minute speech at the annual Herzliya Conference in Herzliya, Israel (discussed...

A (Somewhat) Modest Proposal, Literally

Harvard Weatherhead fellow Martin Kramer's recent remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have created some controversy in the blogosphere. Media Matters' M.J. Rosenberg insinuated in...

Weighing In: Harvard’s Supposed Crisis of Faith

In his post “Harvard’s Supposed Crisis of Faith,” Sam Barr criticizes Lisa Miller’s recent Newsweek article about the study of religion at Harvard: “Of course...

The Enthusiasm Gap

I think Glenn Greenwald is quite right about this.  The Democratic Party has spent the last few years more or less conspicuously failing to...