I want to make a plug, both shameless and, considering the (lamentable) title of my blog, counterintuitive. This weekend is the fall meeting of the Colloquium on the American Founding, and there are a few talks on the docket that would be of interest to folks of all political stripes. These talks are usually pretty [...]

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Meredith, apparently Sergio Vieira de Mello’s death caused the President to give up golf. Nice to know he cares.

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I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty tired of seeing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in big, bold letters every time I open AmhPub. (This from the Liberal Thoughter, and that’s another story.) So I’ve decided to do something about it. This post is tagged with anything I could think of that would [...]

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Meredith Case points out yet another fine piece on Slate, this one by Timothy Noah: apparently we’re all delusional.

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On Tuesday night, Congressman John Olver of our Massachusetts 1st congressional district came to talk to a group of students in Paino Lecture Hall. Here’s a brief recap of what happened, and some impressions of our congressman (who also happens to be the husband of Professor Rose Olver, Amherst College’s first female tenure-track professor):
1. Questions [...]

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