Free Advice to Released Uighurs
If you are headed to Palau–where I spent 1 week of my life, 3 days of which was in a small to medium range typhoon, 2 other days of which I spent on the...
Monthly Archive: June 2009
bringing schools back into our communities
Setting aside the voucher debate for a minute – because Kyle is right, to some degree it can’t hurt to at least try these various ideas out – I’d like to visit briefly the...
Elaboration on Vouchers
Kyle at Vogue Republic gets what I was trying to do with my post on vouchers the other day, even though he admits to being “lukewarm” on the value of vouchers. The whole post...
NoKo Strategery
On the new AmConMag blog Post-Right (which you should really read), Jack Ross writes: I’d like to offer a theory about Kim Jong Il’s behavior – that he’s clumsily trying to imitate the shrewd...
Our Clueless Journalistic Elite
Here’s the problem with amateur punditry: Matthew Yglesias’s list of great songs about people named Al(l)ison manages to ignore one of Slowdive’s career highlights:
the civilizational tango
I have described progressive and conservative politics as existing in a sort of necessary “civilizational tango.” This is often the vantage point from which I’m operating when I consider such things as the importance...
Respecting the Founders
The response to the “America is a Christian nation” meme is usually to argue that the Founders were deists, which results in an intractable debate about the Founders’ actual religion. Transplanted Lawyer, however, takes...
great diavlog with Lindsey and Frum
Brink Lindsey and David Frum are a couple of guys who I disagree with a lot, and who would think little of me or my opinions if they were ever exposed to them. But...
two graphs
Following up on this post from yesterday, on von’s post here, I provide (via Yglesias) yet another graph….
Failed Binary Middle East Lenses: Lebanon and Iranian Elections Edition
I realize this is the editorial page of the neocon Washington Post, but I find this kind of commentary on the recent elections in Lebanon and the upcoming ones in Iran far too common....
thoughts on socialized medicine
I like Yglesias’s idea: I actually think there’s a very strong case on the merits for a limited form of socialized medicine. Which is to say that I think it would be smart for...
Foreign Affairs Reporting Pet Peeve
This NyTimes article on a local Pakistani villager uprising against the Taliban in NorthWest Frontier Province refers to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas as “lawless tribal areas on the Afghan border.” Could we stop...
Sometimes We’re Wrong
Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing on conservatism: But if you are the slave, that essentially conservative approach will always privilege your master over you. Conservatism, with its belief in institutions, traditions, and the past, will seemingly...
Understanding Markets
E.D. thinks that market economics don’t apply to education. Chris disagrees, but thinks that market economics ultimately are about controlling people and inevitably creates – specifically in the realm of education – a form...
