The New Republic

The Republican Party, and its libertarian faction in particular, has a long—which is not to say distinguished—history of singling out bureaucratic bogeymen that allegedly represent the dangers of government overreach. It’s a list that includes the welfare office, the EPA, and the Federal Reserve. But its latest addition is also among its most obscure: a century-old technical piece of trade legislation called the Lacey Act. READ MORE >>

Never have so many written with such technical skill: this remark, as often an expression of frustration and dismay as of admiration, has become a commonplace of poetry criticism in the 1970s. Never, of course, have so many written. And published. And competed for a lamentably small audience: there are perhaps more writers than readers of poetry at the present time. READ MORE >>