3 hours ago · Culture · 0 comments

A couple of decades ago some political scientists at George Washington University started a blog, which they called the Monkey Cage. They invited me to contribute. This was back in 2008. I haven’t thought about the Monkey Cage for awhile. At some point it became attached to the Washington Post, and they kept telling me that my posts were too bloggy and not journalistic, so I ended up contributing much less often. Then it left the Post and got renamed as Good Authority. My last post was in 2020. Sometimes, though, I come across old posts on this blog that link back to my Monkey Cage articles. Often the links don’t work because the site kept changing ownership. So then I have to do some googling to find my original post. Annoying! But I guess my bad for not saving everything I write locally. Anyway, I recently found this archive of everything I wrote for the Monkey Cage. It looks like there are over 1000 posts! It’s hard for me to believe I wrote so much for that site. I’d forgotten…

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