And no one can explain this hyper-scholastic debate better than @jgienapp.bsky.social.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
Another example of how we are inhabiting a "mad king" problem as much as a "what went wrong with the policy-making" process. It's almost as if the unitary executive theory is ultimately about mood swings in the sole holder of the executive power.
For all of you who admired and learned from Gordon Wood's work, as I manifestly did, here is a fresh set of tributes at the Library of America website.
www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
And I can't imagine a worse start to a World Cup came than Scotland just had.
I guarantee you that the interest of locals in quicker counting will evaporate the second you present them with the bill. Fund the employment of additional workers and the purchase of additional tabulating machines.
Wouldn't you rather hear their thoughts on Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, and Lord Kames? And what they think of the Old Firm? or Hearts and Hibernians, one of whose games I'd attend most Saturdays in Edinburgh a mere six decades ago.
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What's the big deal with waiting 53 years for the Knicks to win another NBA championship? (And I really liked the 72-73 Knicks team--Frazier, Reed, Bradley, Lucas, Earl the Pearl Monroe and future Bulls coach Phil Jackson.)
Cubs fans (we few, we lucky few) waiting 108 years to win a World Series.
Coincidentally the official band of the Stanford Department of History (more or less--it's a one-degree-of-separation thing).
To everyone who responded after I announced learning of Gordon Wood's tragic death on Monday, a belated thank you for all your condolences.
And a passing comment: it is striking how the Hebrew condolence zichrono livracha (may his memory be a blessing) is now an American commonplace.
