Your Friday evening brain teaser
This dialogue between David Frum and Jonah Goldberg has been getting some attention: Let’s bracket the “Is Obama a socialist?” question in favor of something a little less contentious. What, if anything, is the...
Daily Archive: May 7, 2010
Hooray for the Pill
The fiftieth anniversary of the birth control pill is reason to celebrate, says Susan Jacoby. Agreed in full.
Was Jesus a Canadian?
Since Will decided it was appropriate to create a post tag entitled “Steve Nash is baller status” the other day, I think I’m obliged to ensure that said tag is used more than once...
All the American Tories
Daniel McCarthy has perhaps the best take on Red Toryism and its incompatibility with the realities of American politics I have seen yet. One important factor behind the success of traditional, pre-liberal Toryism in...
Plato: Euthyphro, Confucius, and the Holy Ghost Hokey Pokey
In Euthyphro, Plato deals with piety and the mystery thereof. As the dialogue opens, Socrates encounters Euthyphro on the porch of the king Archon. Socrates is there because the young man Meletheus has brought...
