Uninvited
We’ll stay if we want
Searching through your closets
For your grandfathers gun
-Cake
Over the last several days, I have made several attempts at writing a piece for this site, or for the Dig, called “Minimum Wage Nation.” The basic thrust of the whole thing was going to be that, like most families in America, our beloved country [...]
You don’t have to hear it from me to know that things have gone south for the reasonable among us in the month or so since I left you. The last, despairing cries of my undergraduate career are echoing in the halls of the clean, ill-lighted place my days have become.
By that, I in no [...]
I was out at my mother’s place last weekend to celebrate my brother’s birthday, and my uncles were there too. They are an excellent set of guys (and I mean set - when all are represented, the number is nine) but they like to rag on me hardcore for my politics. When they [...]
This is not the best time to talk about the economy - there are many other more exciting things to talk about. But, after reading an op-ed in the New York Times by former Secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin, something occurred to me. In it, he talks about the danger of the growing deficits and [...]
I do solemnly swear to update a little later today. In order to make up for lost time, I’ll publish some of the things I’ve been working on!
What follows is my analysis of the European Union’s quest for a constitution.
To the American student of international politics, the EU is an accepted entity. We [...]