Outsiders moaning about Detroit’s woes can be a little unseemly (see this photo gallery, for example), but...
Month: March 2010
I think this Amanda Marcotte piece is pretty interesting. She touches on the idea of work and...
I’m a little late to my Lost blogging again – mainly because I didn’t end up watching...
As the League’s resident ordained clergyman to be, I read with piqued interest Br. Jason’s take on...
The conservative-attack-on-Ayn-Rand essay isn’t anything new, and I don’t know if anyone will ever top Whittaker Chambers’s...
All sorts of interesting this morning from Ross Douthat, regarding America and the mystical experience. He writes:...
First James Poulos of Postmodern Conservative, now frequent commenter Kyle Matthews of Vogue Republic. We expect (nay,...
I need to vent a little bit about the way the discussions under Jason’s post on markets...
From TNR’s excellent review of The Killer Trail, a history of one murderous French expedition into the...
Stephen Lee Myers in the New York Times: Defying a sustained barrage of mortars and rockets in...
Will Wilkinson discusses markets, governments, and corporations, and what happens when the latter two team up to...
In my ‘wealth and moral character’ post, the discussion quickly turned to the Walmart debate, and whether...
Via Rogue Classicism comes a truly awesome project at Leeds: The Herodotus Encoded Space-Text Image Archive (HESTIA)....
This is a very informative piece on how the shadow banking system works (i.e. the “repo” markets –...
Something’s in the air: over at the Front Porch Republic, Jason Peters rails mightily against universities as...
Here at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, we’re doing our part to help kill off serious film...
Br. Erik (as the League’s Arizonan) is probably in a better position to assess this, but why...
The Believer looks at the golden age of teen sex comedies:
Does the name Cully Stimson ring a bell? In 2007 Stimson, in his capacity as Deputy Assistant...
Taking a breather from celebrity nudity and Rob Reiner’s thoughts on health care, the Huffington Post is...