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Alex Sherbany

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My Country, Right or Left?

George Orwell once wrote that “contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present.” If it seems so, it is...

The False Diversity of Elite Universities

The diversity rationale is among the most pervasive for affirmative action, but is it persuasive?

Civility in American Politics, circa 1832

 From an anti-Jackson newspaper, quoted in Tocqueville's Democracy in America: In all this affair the language of Jackson has been that of a heartless despot,...

Orszag, Progressivism, and Public Sector Pay

Sam makes some fair points, but I don't think Wilkinson was saying that anyone in general can get rich on Wall Street now that Washington is...

Questions for Dylan and Sam on the Admissions Lottery

It was interesting to see this argument for an admissions lottery advanced earnestly; I think I've seen a similar example somewhere advanced by critics...

Purging Peretz

The Martin Peretz issue, it seems, is not going away. At least, that's what the Undergraduate Council would like us to believe. Most students and faculty...

Thank You John Mayer

For what is probably my second favorite takedown of The Huffington Post, after last year's TNR cover story by Isaac Chotiner. (The Atlantic's Ray...

Breitbart/Sherrod: Sound and Fury

The Breitbart/Sherrod saga feels like so much political drama. It is a kind of spectacle custom-made for Politico reporters and political junkies -- mildly...

Goodbye J.D. Hayworth?

Nowhere has the clash between the Tea Party movement and the "GOP establishment" been more apparent than Arizona, where former Rep. J.D. Hayworth has been a...

A Lebanese Angle on the Rima Fakih Story

Apart from being an excellent excuse to boost web traffic with pictures of bikini-clad women (cf. The Huffington Post), you may not have seen Lebanese...