Blogs: Rick Perlstein

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. more »

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.

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. more »

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 more »

I'll be writing more in weeks to come on the conservative response to my book. more »

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. more »

I find this stunning: a great American institution of higher learning, Washington University in St. Louis, is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary degree. more »

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. more »

My review of Mickey Edwards's Reclaiming Conservatism in this week's Washington Post Book World.

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: more »