Archives: October 2006

I have written previously about the important lesson my briliant, humanistic Japanese politics professor Hans Baerwald taught me: one just can’t really know the norms of a political system, or any system, unless observing that system under stress.

Monday morning, 10:05 am, I’ll be chatting for about half an hour on New York public radio’s “Brian Lehrer Show.” Much to discuss. Gas prices may be plummeting just in time for the elections. I paid $1.