Nate Silver and the Future of Prediction
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t Normal.dotm 0 0 1 2291 13064 sunlight foundation 108 26 16043 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false READ MORE >>
America on the Brink of Oligarchy
The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy By Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady (Princeton University Press, 693 pp., $35) Oligarchy By Jeffrey A. Winters (Cambridge University Press, 323 pp., $29.99) The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy By David Karpf (Oxford University Press, 237 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>
Between the Lines
SOME VICTORIES prepare the ground for more victories; others lay the basis for future defeats. The great question for liberals about the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is which kind of victory it is. READ MORE >>
Cockroaches and Compromise
On Compromise and Rotten Compromises By Avishai Margalit (Princeton University Press, 221 pp., $26.95) The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It By Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson (Princeton University Press, 279 pp., $24.95) READ MORE >>
The Health Care Mandate Really Was a Mistake
The Mandate Miscalculation
Welcome To The Party
On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and PartisanshipBy Nancy Rosenblum (Princeton University Press, 576 pp., $29.95) Partisanship is resurgent in America, and hardly anyone likes it. To say that American politics has become polarized along party lines is tantamount, for most people, to acknowledging that something has gone wrong with the country. And, indeed, the differences between Republicans and Democrats are less easily bridged than in the past: the two parties now stand for different worldviews, not just different policy positions. READ MORE >>
Nothing Neo
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol (The Free Press, 493 pp., $25) READ MORE >>
