August 1st, 2011
(1) It’s nice to see that they read Wired over at Harper’s, too.
(2) The New York Times continues its series on blackness and Marvel summer comic-book movies.
(3) John Judis thinks Republicans are, well, here, let him tell it:
Over the last four decades, the Republican Party has transformed from a loyal opposition into an insurrectionary party that flouts the law when it is in the majority and threatens disorder when it is the minority. It is the party of Watergate and Iran-Contra, but also of the government shutdown in 1995 and the impeachment trial of 1999. If there is an earlier American precedent for today’s Republican Party, it is the antebellum Southern Democrats of John Calhoun who threatened to nullify, or disregard, federal legislation they objected to, and who later led the fight to secede from the union over slavery. . . .
The Republicans are, in effect, demanding a major constitutional change in return for not shutting down the government and undermining the American economy. That’s insurrectionary behavior.
Dave Bowman August 1, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Judis has come down a bit from his New Majority triumphalism, way, way back in 2009. But his “America in crisis” article after the last election was great. He channeled Kent Brockman in high style (“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…”) This is a mag that was putting George W. Bush on the cover as recently as 5 months ago but they’re the only publication on Air Force One or something.