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The Right's Priorities

By Rick Perlstein
November 22nd, 2008

While we're busy governing, Freepers will be combing through Barack Obama's late mother's 1,067-page dissertation on peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia for "Facts that could be helpful in upcoming Supreme Court cases":

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Conservatism: The Talk Radio Problem

By Rick Perlstein
November 21st, 2008

Ever since Sara Palin's speech to the Republican National Convention, I've been struggling to express something that Nate Silver gets to with conciseness and aplomb. more »

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New New Deal? The Literary Evidence

By Rick Perlstein
November 20th, 2008

Turns out the president-elect has been reading Jean Edward Smith's fine biography FDR. An excellent choice—and a strong suggestion that maybe Obama is thinking about this.

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Right Minded (2)

By Rick Perlstein
November 20th, 2008

Last week I shared with you the post-election reflections of a listserv I follow of conservative "scholars." I think I'll keep 'em coming. This stuff is too good not to share: more »

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What's Really Driving EFCA Opposition: The Smoking Gun

By Rick Perlstein
November 19th, 2008

The forces of workplace authoritarianism have gotten far too far with their propaganda that the Employee Free Choice Act, designed to make it easier for workers who want to join a union to do so, only oppose this common-sense reform because it is un-American: that it eliminates the "secret ballot" in unio more »

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Romney to City: Drop Dead

By Rick Perlstein
November 19th, 2008

My fine colleague Terrence Heath has been riffing out a new concept to explain the latest turn of our right-wing friends: "drop dead conservatism." As in the infamous 1975 New York Post headline, "Ford To City: Drop Dead," reporting on the 38th president's avowal that he would rather see New York City go bankrupt than approve a bailout more »

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Perlstein, Sorensen, and Blumenthal on the Way Forward

By Rick Perlstein
November 18th, 2008

I haven't done much blogging here this week and last, partly because I'm still cogitating upon what the hell really happened to conservatism on November 4, and partly because I've been doing much of that cogitating aloud, on the road, in speeches and panel discussions that obliging souls booked me for long ago on the presumption that I would have something wise and useful to say about "Nixonland" more »

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Right Minded

By Rick Perlstein
November 13th, 2008

One of the jobs we'll be taking on here at the Big Con will be to monitor the Obama Hate. Please do send in your ripest examples to me at rperlstein@ourfuture.org. Forthwith, our first plunge. more »

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How My Blogging Used To Work

By Rick Perlstein
November 12th, 2008

Blogging on conservatism used to be easy. I'd just link to some Third World-like example of infrastructure failure in an American city, often involving a bursting one-hundred-year-old water main like this one yesterday in Staten Island... more »

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"Center-Right Nation": This Is Getting Boring

By Rick Perlstein
November 12th, 2008

Eugene Robinson shows how it's nonsense. So do, um the facts: more »

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