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Biopolitics & Ideology
“This is something we will not give up on because we are not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American...
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Mar 19, 20131 min read


Saying Goodbye to an Old Foe
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was an inveterate U.S. foreign policy antagonist. He was a true master in this art....
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Mar 7, 20133 min read


Is Jon Huntsman Gay-Friendly?
Jon Huntsman, a former governor of my home state, sure does look like an opportunist right now. After losing the battle to become the...
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Mar 4, 20135 min read


Keeping a Diary in the Beast’s Belly
I am not sure what politics is exactly. Nonetheless, I know it’s both important and largely unrelated to the topically clean-cut and...
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Feb 16, 20131 min read


Separation Anxiety
Catalunya and Euskadi (Basque Country) want to leave the dominion of the state of Spain. This is as well known as the time of day. What...
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Jan 31, 20132 min read


Taxes as Violence? No
A weak form of this argument appears in Oliver Hudson’s article for the Brown Daily Herald, “Universal Suffrage is Immoral.” It appears...
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Dec 3, 20125 min read


Give Up The Goods!
I would like to introduce BPR’s newest online column, entitled Give Up The Goods. Give Up The Goods is anchored around the premise that...
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Dec 3, 20122 min read


The Idiocy of the Pledge
I would like to think that this year’s elections have rendered a negative verdict on the practice of political pledges. Few are...
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Nov 16, 20121 min read


New Logic of Climate Change
Nonetheless, we cannot make the following claim: climate change caused Hurricane Sandy. Why? We must remember the following: If we are to...
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Nov 2, 20123 min read


Thinking Against the Memes
A recent post at The New Inquiry does a commendable job of pinning down the strange political vantage point that is inhabited by the...
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Oct 26, 20121 min read


Austerity, Objectivity, and Amtrak
Lately, the degree to which discourses of “objectivity” have dominated our political theatre is astounding. Everywhere one turns, he or...
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Oct 21, 20124 min read
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