Rick Perlstein
| Hometown: | Chicago, IL |
| Interests: | The Big Con, conservative failure |
| Honors: | 4 |
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- May 11, 2008 - 11:53am
1) Will says the most important thing to know is that I'm a condescending liberal. For me the fascinating thing is that I think I'm a better critic of liberal condescension in the 1960s and '70s than he is.
- May 10, 2008 - 3:44pm
I hereby decree PERLSTEIN'S LAW:
In an online argument, the badder a wingnut gets his butt beat, the more likely they are to excoriate the butt-beater for using bad words.
- May 9, 2008 - 5:47pm
This weekend I leave for a two week tour to promote my new book, the product of seven years' labor. I'll be blogging here sporadically if at all.
- May 8, 2008 - 6:43pm
Longtime fans of this blog who recall my epic 67-part series on sinkholes and their relation to conservative failure may wonder why I haven't yet weighed in on the 600-foot gargantua that has been opening up in
- May 8, 2008 - 5:25pm
I'll be writing more in weeks to come on the conservative response to my book.
- May 8, 2008 - 2:33pm
Kathy G weighs in at Crooked Timber with just about the definitive post on this obscene business of Washington University in St. Louis conferring an honorary degree on Phyllis Schlafly. Two more things worth saying, however.
- May 7, 2008 - 1:57pm
I find this stunning: a great American institution of higher learning, Washington University in St. Louis, is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary degree.
- May 5, 2008 - 1:53pm
Mildred Loving was a black woman who married a white man in Virginia, which was against the law in the state. She took her case all the way up to the Supreme Court, which struck down interracial marriage bans in the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision. Today it was announced that she has died at the age of 68.
- May 4, 2008 - 12:25pm
My review of Mickey Edwards's Reclaiming Conservatism in this week's Washington Post Book World.
- May 4, 2008 - 12:22pm
One of the side-obsessions of this blog has been the Bush administration's machinations to drag us into a war in Iran. Here's the latest, from the very reliable Andrew Cockburn:
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- May 11, 2008 - 11:53am
1) Will says the most important thing to know is that I'm a condescending liberal. For me the fascinating thing is that I think I'm a better critic of liberal condescension in the 1960s and '70s than he is.
- May 10, 2008 - 3:44pm
I hereby decree PERLSTEIN'S LAW:
In an online argument, the badder a wingnut gets his butt beat, the more likely they are to excoriate the butt-beater for using bad words.
- May 9, 2008 - 5:47pm
This weekend I leave for a two week tour to promote my new book, the product of seven years' labor. I'll be blogging here sporadically if at all.
- May 8, 2008 - 6:43pm
Longtime fans of this blog who recall my epic 67-part series on sinkholes and their relation to conservative failure may wonder why I haven't yet weighed in on the 600-foot gargantua that has been opening up in
- May 8, 2008 - 5:25pm
I'll be writing more in weeks to come on the conservative response to my book.
- May 8, 2008 - 2:33pm
Kathy G weighs in at Crooked Timber with just about the definitive post on this obscene business of Washington University in St. Louis conferring an honorary degree on Phyllis Schlafly. Two more things worth saying, however.
- May 7, 2008 - 1:57pm
I find this stunning: a great American institution of higher learning, Washington University in St. Louis, is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary degree.
- May 5, 2008 - 1:53pm
Mildred Loving was a black woman who married a white man in Virginia, which was against the law in the state. She took her case all the way up to the Supreme Court, which struck down interracial marriage bans in the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision. Today it was announced that she has died at the age of 68.
- May 4, 2008 - 12:25pm
My review of Mickey Edwards's Reclaiming Conservatism in this week's Washington Post Book World.
- May 4, 2008 - 12:22pm
One of the side-obsessions of this blog has been the Bush administration's machinations to drag us into a war in Iran. Here's the latest, from the very reliable Andrew Cockburn:
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- Commented NoSo sticky in a discussion on Axis of Um, Um: Where Do We Go Frum Here? (Blog entry) | April 24, 2008 - 4:44pm
- Commented Read the second sentence in a discussion on The Conservative Era Is Over (Blog entry) | February 26, 2008 - 3:36pm
- Commented incompetent government? in a discussion on This Is Your Government on Conservatism (Blog entry) | February 19, 2008 - 8:54pm
- Commented Ledeen in a discussion on Goldberg Can't Explain His Own Book (Blog entry) | January 18, 2008 - 10:46am
- Rated Please Just Send My Tax Rebate To Mastercard And Save Me The 41 Cents... (Blog entry) | January 18, 2008 - 10:40am
- Commented Outrage Fatigue in a discussion on "Snake oil salesman" would be too generous (Blog entry) | December 21, 2007 - 2:37pm
- Commented Darryl's not a troll in a discussion on The Mortgage Crisis: Yet Another Conservative Failure (Blog entry) | December 19, 2007 - 9:16am
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