Why I Emphasize Congress So Much.

I wrote this earlier today to a group of my progressive high-information-voter friends on Fb, intentionally hoping to hear multiple viewpoints on this issue. I’ve gotten tons of flack over the past few months for the degree to which I’ve pushed the Congressional elections on par with the Presidential one. I do not claim that [...]

Senate Races: Preventing a Scalia Majority.

Today is the first day of the 2008-2009 Supreme Court term. It may well be the last before Antonin Scalia’s ideology becomes the supreme law of the land for a generation.

Foucault and Political Capital.

In a choice between analyzing politics with Foucault or Bourdieu (the best exponent of politically and socially mediated forms of capital), I mostly opt for Foucault.
I tend to think of political capital as performatively constituted, not essentially given. The numbers indicate a baseline from every day prior to today’s news cycle. But political capital is [...]