I for Infantalization I for Infantalization
You would think that V for Vendetta, a movie jam-packed with post-9/11 themes, deserved a serious response. Instead, some of the most prominent media outlets have chosen to insult ...
Mar 27, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
A New Downing Street Memo A New Downing Street Memo
The British government memo on Iraq, reported in today's New York Times, is perhaps even more important than the Downing Street memo. The five-page memo--of a January 31, 2003 Ova...
Mar 27, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Clueless on Immigration Clueless on Immigration
The largest mobilization in the history of--and in favor of--immigrants stretched for a mind-boggling twenty-six blocks through downtown Los Angeles Saturday, bringing somewhere be...
Mar 26, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Argentina: 30 Years After the Deluge Argentina: 30 Years After the Deluge
To paraphrase that great line from Bogie: I remember the night of March 24, 1976 like yesterday. My wife was wearing blue. The Argentine military was in gray. Exactly thirty years...
Mar 25, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Affirmative Action for Men, Part Deux Affirmative Action for Men, Part Deux
Remember when opponents of affirmative action argued that it hurt blacks' self-esteem because they'd never know if they had succeededon their merit? According to this theory, firs...
Mar 24, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Affirmative Action for White Men, Chap. 4,651 Affirmative Action for White Men, Chap. 4,651
It isn't often that someone owns up to flagrant sex discrimination inthe op-ed page of the New York Times, so I suppose we should begrateful to Kenyon College dean of admissions Je...
Mar 23, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
The End of TINA The End of TINA
I'm in a secure and undisclosed location for a 52 hour break from thebrutal beast called a political weekly. That's why I'm on e-mail at 11pm Tuesday night. (And scouring the local...
Mar 22, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
No Light in the Tunnel No Light in the Tunnel
Hope and fear are always the polar forces at work in Americanpolitics and this Texas-macho President has brilliantly orchestrated thenation's fear of terrorism into a winning posit...
Mar 22, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
An Undocumented “Sanctuary” An Undocumented “Sanctuary”
The rhetorical war over immigration has suddenly become a ground war in Southern California. While some towns in conservative Orange County are now encouraging their local police t...
Mar 22, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Rumsfeld Is “Absolutely Crazy” Rumsfeld Is “Absolutely Crazy”
There is not a lot of debate anymore about the fact that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is the loosest cannon in the arsenal. Consider his claim, made in a Sunday oped piece ...
Mar 20, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard