Business, Politics in America “Regulating Wall Street is an Old Testament sort of affair: Like Leviticus, it is all about the persnickety details” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 August 2015 Regulating Wall Street is an Old Testament sort of affair: Like Leviticus, it is...
Politics in America “It would not be quite right to say that Magna Carta has withstood the ravages of time” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 July 2015 It would not be quite right to say that Magna Carta has withstood the...
Marriage, Politics in America “Dignity is a rather elusive and malleable concept compared with more concrete qualities such as race and sex” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 July 2015 Dignity is a rather elusive and malleable concept compared with more concrete qualities such...
Politics in America “Magna Carta’s unusual legacy in the United States is a matter of political history” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 July 2015 Magna Carta’s unusual legacy in the United States is a matter of political history....
Politics in America “Substituting compulsory morality with compulsory liberalism simply shifts the burden of coercive state power from one group to another” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 July 2015 Obergefell would be a tragic irony if it succeeded in finally closing the door...
Politics in America “A better idea is to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replace him with a distinguished woman from American history” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 July 2015 Treasury is proposing to put a woman’s portrait alongside Hamilton’s on the $10 bill,...
Politics in America, Semantics “…’folks’ serves as a softener of rhetorical edges. It suggests a mode of kinship and self-conscious informality that politicians increasingly default to, perhaps as an overcorrective to the inflated wealth of those same politicians” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 July 2015 …“folks” serves as a softener of rhetorical edges. It suggests a mode of kinship...
Politics in America “It’s never as simple and humdrum as being for or against the Clintons” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 June 2015 …it’s different from politics as usual. It’s politics as a peculiar form of psychological...
America, Politics in America “The secular humanist liberation movement…should not encourage nonbelievers to turn away from their own intellectual heritage…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 June 2015 As nonbelievers tangle with traditional Christians over same-sex marriage and navigate conflicts between conservative...
Israel, Politics in America “The president’s views on Israel were forged during his time in Chicago, when he became friendly with a group of prominent Jewish Democrats…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 June 2015 The president’s views on Israel were forged during his time in Chicago, when he...