Houston Davidson

• Give Up the Goods

Catalunya and Euskadi (Basque Country) want to leave the dominion of the state of Spain. This is as well known as the time of day. What is not as settled is the “why”. There are of course your classic reasons: The Basques pre-date God and speak a...

• Editor's Choice
• Give Up the Goods

I would like to introduce BPR’s newest online column, entitled Give Up The Goods. Give Up The Goods is anchored around the premise that bringing some theoretical insights to the discussion of politics can produce some interesting results. Too o...

• Give Up the Goods
• Off The Trail

I would like to think that this year’s elections have rendered a negative verdict on the practice of political pledges. Few are unfamiliar with the now classic hand-raising (or lack thereof) moment in the GOP primaries in which all of the candi...

• Give Up the Goods
• Off The Trail

The Northeast region of the United States just experienced a late autumn hurricane. This is not common. Nonetheless, we cannot make the following claim: climate change caused Hurricane Sandy. Why? We must remember the following: If we are to make a c...

• Editor's Choice
• Give Up the Goods
• Off The Trail

                A recent post at The New Inquiry does a commendable job of pinning down the strange political vantage point that is inhabited by the political meme. The writer, one Nathan Jurgenson, conducts a ...

• Editor's Choice
• Give Up the Goods
• Off The Trail

Lately, the degree to which discourses of “objectivity” have dominated our political theatre is astounding. Everywhere one turns, he or she is confronted by a variety of appeals to some qualification outside the bound of “politics” and “par...

• Off The Trail

  For a variety of reasons it is difficult to backcountry camp in Zion National Park. Of course, the town of Springdale, Utah provides many quaint (or not-so quaint) lodging options for park visitors. Then again, something about being in one of ...

• Europe
• World

Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, classmate of Sr. Romney, has outdone himself. In what is now a legendarily cavalier portrait of recklessly reductive thinking on the topic of nuclear threat, Bibi holds a graphic poster of a simplistic bomb with...

• United States

Given Mitt Romney’s recent comments surrounding the “47 percent” and their “entitlement” dependence, I believe this column might be particularly relevant. Especially cogent here is the affective analysis of the writer, Prof. William Connoll...