I know Mark Levin, and you sir are no Mark Levin
I love debate, as all of you here know, but when someone picks on Mark Levin – the most gentlemanly scholar and scholarly gentleman I have ever known, a veritable light in a sea...
Monthly Archive: April 2010
No epistemic closure here!
One response to the debate over conservatism and “epistemic closure” has been to argue that, well, conservatism is ailed by no such disease. I highlighted Jim Manzi’s excellent takedown of Mark Levin’s Liberty and...
Derivatives Regulation Update
As an update to this earlier post, Blanche Lincoln’s derivatives rules have passed out of committee.
Glee Week 1 Back Review
I have to say my Glee predictions turned out to be truer and materialize faster than I had anticipated. They tried the failed we’re going to be popular/now we’re not slushy in the face...
The “epistemic closure” debate, continued
Well, this is a must-read. Jim Manzi takes a baseball bat to Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny:
“We are out of the eradication business”
Jason’s 4/20 cri de coeur is well taken, but here’s a bit of hopeful news on the drug war front from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Danger Room: I’m also mystified...
Folk wisdom and the tyranny of the experts
[updated below] I’ve been thinking about birth a great deal lately. This is likely because birth in my family is just around the corner. Our second is due in July. In any case, all...
Kaus Oppo Research Project makes me want to donate to Mickey Kaus
My favorite highlight from Gawker’s incredibly thorough (and kind of creepy) oppo dump on Mickey Kaus’s senate campaign:
Plato’s Republic (3): The Soul
In The Republic, Plato attempts to translate the Sacred Order of transcendent Being into the Social Order of the Polis. In a philosophical soul, the higher reason will rule over the lower instincts by...
McWeed
Dateline: Vancouver, BC April 20th I’m starting to think 4/20 is a conspiracy perpetrated by the McDonalds corporation. I’ve just finished my normal daily routine of cleaning the outside grounds of the downtown church...
Facts and Assertions
Mark Calabria at Cato seems a little annoyed that people like Simon Johnson are hammering Mitch McConnell for his defenses of doing nothing (Brother Scott addresses here). He blames this primarily on: This familiar canard is...
Radical Center Review
Michael Lind with a sharp piece in The Daily Beast reflecting on his 2001 book (co-authored with Ted Halstead) The Radical Center. The Radical Center and Lind’s earlier The New American Nation are lodestars...
Why Fact-Checking Is Important
UPDATED …Even for a blogger. This morning I linked to a story suggesting that the EPA is running a contest to celebrate the wonders of the regulatory state. The EPA is in fact running...
A 4/20 Reminder
Considered as a whole, the War on Drugs is the single worst violation of liberty perpetrated by our government. Nothing else even comes close. The War on Drugs imprisons hundreds of thousands for no...
“A Weekly for Everybody”
“Are American women holding aviation back?” asks Amelia Earhart. This and much more can be found in Liberty Magazine (circa 1937)- now online.
Henry Adams’ Washington
Via Ross, Adam Irish argues for a vibrant and messy Washington DC. If only he had seen it in Henry Adams’ time: The want of barriers, of pavements, of forms; the looseness, the laziness;...
Addressing Goldman’s defenders…
Writing at RealClearMarkets, John Tamny attempts to defend Goldman Sachs against the SEC’s allegations. His defense, aside from the SEC bashing (some of it deserved), seems to hinge on a simplistic Trading 101 description...
Random derivatives musings and the Goldman complaint…
Chris has an interesting post on financial derivatives. Rather than write a lengthy response in the comments, I’ll elaborate here. I could use a little more output anyway. 🙂 Also, if anyone has not...
