July 11, 2010 - Ordinary Times

/// July 11, 2010

Things have declined greatly from a highpoint under the Duke of Zhou

I’ve been thinking a lot about Rufus’ post on a Confucian politics. Some of it makes a lot of sense to me, for example: [S]ince the state has no business making distinctions of taste,...

Rufus F.

/// July 11, 2010

Okay, your thoughts?

Speaking of public decorum and the surveillance culture (two recent subjects), over at Feministe they’re telling us about the ihollaback iPhone application, which allows the user to photograph street harassers (à la hollabacknyc) and...

Erik Kain

/// July 11, 2010

A few more notes on cutting defense spending

Joerg Wolf, of the Atlantic Council, disagrees that European nations would increase defense spending if America decreased its presence in Europe and around the globe as I noted in my defense-spending piece at NRO....