Given that the Civil Rights Act is in no danger of repeal and the libertarian-ish wing of the Republican Party offers some interesting opportunities for coalition building on civil liberties and foreign policy, I’m...
Not that there are many supporters of the ex-gay “movement” who read this blog, but this description of what that “movement” can entail should make anyone ask which group are the real “moral relativists.” ...
[updated] I’ve been terribly remiss in my Lost blogging. Unfortunately, my schedule and my lack of a television make it hard for me to blog about TV shows – even shows like Lost which...
Jason’s piece has already inspired a number of responses, but one element I wanted to point out was Jason’s rather unexpected agreement with Patrick Deneen. Here’s the quotation from Deneen’s Cato Unbound piece that...
Mike Gibson takes a few shots at Patrick Deneen’s introductory essay on Red Toryism (hat tip: Will Wilkinson).
Via Good Magazine, here’s a blog that narrows Los Angeles’s cumbersome avenues. The results are incredibly striking:
I don’t take to the pages of Ordinary Gents to brag very often (I hope), but I feel like this mini-post from last year where I advised Joe Sestak to run against Arlen Specter...
We owe where we are to the habit — and the freedom — of tinkering. ~ Jason, on the libertarian disposition I think there are two types of tinkering. There is the tinkering of...
Jason has just given you the liberal-libertarian disposition, so I thought I’d try my hand at explaining why I’m sometimes drawn to the conservative alternative. My knowledge of political philosophy is almost nil, so...
On first glance, I see much less basic sympathy between liberals and libertarians than Jason does. American liberals — of the type embodied by Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama — tend to be more...
Mark Thompson offers a two-part analysis of liberaltarianism. I suspect there are three. Part one looks back at the intellectual history of liberalism. We know the refrain by now: Bastiat sat on the Left....
In the Apology, Socrates defends himself, badly, against the charge of impiety stemming from the belief that he has corrupted the youth, denied the city’s gods, and introduced new divinities. On trial for his...
“A Jefferson County teacher picked the wrong example when he used assassinating President Barack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geometry students.”
Sometimes, I think I missed my true calling as a fabulist. TNR posts the hilariously overwrought resume of Adam Wheeler, a guy who literally conned his way into Harvard (and is apparently fluent in...
Georgetown University’s Patrick J. Deneen opens this month’s Cato Unbound talking about one of our frequent conversation topics, Phillip Blond and his Red Tory synthesis: [L]iberal anthropology… underlies both the Left’s infatuation with the...
I enjoyed David’s defense of New York’s cultural dominance far more than I probably should have, and agree wholeheartedly. This despite the fact that, as a kid – and even into my early 20s...
Conor Friedersdorf has written a disastrous post about New York over at the Atlantic. His specific complaints — that Manhattan transplants who spend the holidays back in Dubuque complain about how sorry Dubuque is...
Many reliable writing guides tell us to visualize all figures of speech. This is almost always good advice. It’s particularly good advice while reading a piece of bad writing. The infelicitous but visualized figure...
Some interesting discussion surrounding the Robin Hood film (which I haven’t seen) has surfaced following this A.O. Scott piece in the New York Times, wherein Scott suggests: You may have heard that Robin Hood...
I am a proponent of globalization and I’ll admit that my understanding of financial markets is exceedingly limited, but I have a hard time disagreeing with Dani Rodrik’s claim that democracy, the nation-state, and...
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on Weekend Plans Post: The Aftermath of Catching UpIt's been an entire month since I've been out of town. This might seem like a minor thing to some of…
on Embassies, Attacks, and IranIt was never going to start ww3. At worst they attack one of our war ships (or whatever) and we shut… on Embassies, Attacks, and IranIt has been reported as the embassy and Iran seemed to be treating it as such. If people wanted to m…
on Weekend Plans Post: The Aftermath of Catching UpYes. I missed it. My plan is to watch it while doing laundry. I have been told it's among the best e… on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024I should have had more faith in "Nothing Ever Happens", I guess. Looks like this is already behind u…
on Weekend Plans Post: The Aftermath of Catching UpNothing too exciting this weekend. Boardgame meetup tomorrow, but nothing pressing to do around the…
on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024They probably domesticated staple food grains because the cannabis gave them the munchies.
on Embassies, Attacks, and IranWhen Trump took out Iran's general what was your response to that. Just curious. Where you fine with…
on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024I am not inclined to be very sympathetic to people like her. These are people who talk about the gre… on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024The fear was that she was going to give a speech that would be 15 minutes of "From the River to the…
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