The New Republic

by Eric RauchwayThe CGS study Dan mentions sparked my interest: there is after all more than one source of international graduate student, and though international admissions are up, the composition of international admissions looks like it's shifting. READ MORE >>

by Alan WolfeWhen David Greenberg pages you, you have to pick up the phone. So let me put in my two cent answer to the question of how liberals and Democrats ought to respond to the theocratic tendencies out there in the far regions of the religious right. My answer is this: It is not necessary to choose between liberty and faith. Conservative Protestants were once strong advocates of religious liberty. Their motives were not the noblest; anti-Catholic, they identified Rome with politicized religion and insisted on their purity of their faith by contrast. READ MORE >>

Have you already forgotten Valerie Plame? Well, she's reminding us that she exists. See an article in Thursday's New York Post. To sue is to exist, and she is now adding Richard Armitage's name to that of Vice President Cheney in a civil suit in U.S. District Court accusing them both of conspiring to blow her cover as a CIA intelligence officer. READ MORE >>

by Alan WolfeFritz Stern ought to be ranked up there as one of the great American liberals of the twentieth century, along with his close friends Richard Hofstadter and Lionel Trilling. READ MORE >>

by Eric Rauchway John's already shown that the only way you can be a "Wire"-hater is to talk about something other than what you actually see on "The Wire": On the screen even the minor characters are, as Dan Jardine says at The House Next Door, "graced with the sort of detail and shading that you normally only find in leading roles." READ MORE >>

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Well, everybody is getting into the Islamofacsist controversy. Our Open University blog has had postings here, here, and here on the matter. READ MORE >>

I know that most of you know that the president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, is, as I am, a member in very good standing of the Elders of Zion. So it follows that anything I say in his behalf might be dismissed as an act of fraternity or, worse yet, ethnic clannishness. READ MORE >>

by Ted WidmerYesterday, in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country, moderate Republican Lincoln Chafee defeated a robust challenge from a right-wing conservative, Stephen Laffey. The Boston Globe said Chafee "eked out" a narrow victory, but in fact he won by a comfortable 54-46 margin, an impressive victory after many commentators and polls had predicted his defeat. He now faces a hard challenge in the general election from a former state attorney general, Sheldon Whitehouse, who faced little opposition winning the Democratic nomination yesterday. READ MORE >>

by David GreenbergNow that Hillary Clinton has dispensed with Jonathan Tasini in the New York Democratic Senate primary--proving, among other things, that Joe Lieberman's loss last month doesn't mean that the Democrats are collectively racing leftward on national security issues--we're bound to hear more about her purported presidential ambitio READ MORE >>