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...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25So a couple of months ago, I was talking about how the January 6th people had incredibly bad opsec,…
on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Problem: HimselfWhen there is this much of a opposition to power over this long of a period of time, the calculus se…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Delicious. on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Ahura Mazda seems like a pretty wise guy. How was the food? on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Happy Nowruz everybody. I was at my second Nowruz celebration with my partner last night. Yesterday… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25The minimal example of this is showing somewhere where people with the wrong politics got punished f…
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on Saturday Morning Gaming: Dice N Goblins First ImpressionsFollowing up on this comment from a few years ago, I got my xbox controller hooked up to my new lapt… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Again, to repeat what is actually being talking about, the actual topic of discussion: this is the w…
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