I had the good fortune yesterday afternoon to attend a panel discussion on the future of conservatism featuring Ross Douthat, David Frum, Daniel Larison, and Virginia Postrel. It was a rather enlightening discussion, but...
Contra Bill Simmons, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest article isn’t 2009’s best piece of sports journalism. In fact, it’s not even the best article about football-related concussions. For that, you’ll have to go to GQ’s “Game...
Please read Jagdish Bhagwati’s excellent defense of free markets and free trade in the wake of the global financial panic.
“If deflation really gets so out of hand that it plunges us into Depression-like circumstances, that’ll be bad for everyone. But if we have four or five years of near-zero inflation and 9-10 percent...
If you missed it, Scott, Jamelle, and Reihan Salam did a podcast together. You can listen to it here.
Freddie’s piece on Ross Douthat is top-notch. But more interesting than the critique of Douthat-as-columnist, is Freddie’s analysis of conservatism divided, which after a second and third reading, I can agree with to a...
Writing from my mother-in-law’s beautiful home on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia… To all our Canadian Readers (and beloved true Canadian member of the League), Happy Thanksgiving Long Weekend (Canadian Observed).
I wanted to quickly highlight Publius’ response to my post the other day on net neutrality. It’s a useful response that reinforces a key point that I was trying to make: if “reduced government...
So Sullivan recommends that Mousavi gets the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Obama. I wonder, is the Peace Prize about promoting peace or is it about promoting democracy? Mousavi has helped egg on riots...
When the New York Times ended (or Bill Kristol ended) the absurd farce of having among their columnists an utterly discredited, partisan neocon whose every assumption and prediction about Iraq had proven brutally and...
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on The Mandate That Wasn’tInterpreted by whom? I said in an earlier thread that the Dems are going to come crawling back to th… on The Mandate That Wasn’tHeh! I thought the analysis showed but for DJT turning his head at an extremely fortunate moment he'…
on The Mandate That Wasn’t"Hey, Vincent, don't you see? That sh*t don't matter. You're judging this sh*t the wrong way. I mean… on The Mandate That Wasn’tNo one dodges a bullet in real life. It's either bad aim or luck that saves you.
on The Mandate That Wasn’tGolly, I sure wish we had a press that wasn't obviously in the bag for the Democratic Party right ab… on The Mandate That Wasn’tIn the movies? No. But in real life? What would dodging bullets even look like in real life?
on The Mandate That Wasn’tThe interesting thing will be when the Congressional Democrats shut down government again, will it b… on The Mandate That Wasn’tThing is, “Kamala actually did pretty well. Nobody could have done better" appears to be true. Anywh…
on All the President’s Nominees: The Legion of GroomI think you need to re-read that Gabbard piece. She backed off her comments. And your memory of RTFL…
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