Micah Tillman

. . . Then what?
In yesterday’s class, my lecture was on Plato’s description of how governments decay from one form into another (Republic, Book VIII).
It’s pure genius, especially his description of how tyrants rise out of democracies (564a-end of VIII). In the midst of that description, Plato says of the tyrant:
[Socrates:] At first, in the [...]

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Jonah Goldberg is right: McCain should pick a Democrat (or ex-Dem like Lieberman) as his VP.
Evidently Goldberg’s article didn’t make Rush too happy. But Rush himself was making the same kind of argument before he came up with Operation Chaos. If you’ll remember, I wrote a little article on the subject in early March:
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I’ve got a new article up at The Free Liberal. You can read it here.

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(Another entry in my ongoing struggle with the idea of “groups” . . .)
I was looking at the exit polls for the SC primaries and found the following interesting:
The Republicans who voted were 49% Female, 51% Male.
The Democrats who voted were 61% Female, 39% Male.
So I decided to check the other states. Here’s what I [...]

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This may be the most hilarious opening paragraph to a news story ever:
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - John Edwards willed himself through a 36-hour marathon, Barack Obama dispatched canvassers onto frigid streets and Hillary Rodham Clinton hand-carried bagels and coffee to volunteers Wednesday, vying for victory in the Iowa caucuses and priceless momentum in the [...]

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Here’s the headline from fellow Wordpress blog, CNN Political Ticker:
Obama: I deserve a tax increase
It’s a summary, not a quotation, but it reminded me of something another Democrat Senator said recently. I can’t find the quotation now, however. *sighs*
The stereotypes are that the Republican Party is the party of the rich, and the Democrat Party [...]

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