Monthly Archive: July 2010

I have some major reservations about Inception, so I’ll get the part where I praise the movie out of the way first. Inception is genuinely thrilling, and it’s nice to see a major studio...

I’m not sure that I fully endorse this (although I certainly agree with most of it, especially in the first half), but I think Simon K is on to something when he comments: The...

I agree entirely with Mark when he urges us not to confuse state and national politics. As a resident of Arizona, I understand this only too well. Indeed, it’s interesting to me to look...

Mark: I understand where you’re coming from here, but I’m not entirely convinced.  Libertarians are already largely on the same page as liberals on social and foreign policy issues – sometimes they’re even a...

I’ve long argued that libertarianism, to the extent it is entitled to consider itself the heir to classical liberalism, has been corrupted by its long-standing affiliation with the American political Right.   Tim Lee makes...

In his discussion with Scott the other day, Freddie wrote, in a since-much-cited quote: When conservatives argue, they say, “my position is the really conservative one.” When liberals argue, they often still say, “my...

“John Stagliano faces prison for perhaps the rest of his life. Will putting him there save even a single pair of innocent eyeballs? And for how many milliseconds? Is that a trade-off we’re happy...

Transplanted Lawyer has an important follow-up to his guest-post last week on whether the Arizona immigration law is Constitutionally preempted.  TL suggests that the arguments advanced by the Obama Administration may not be likely to succeed, while...

…apologies for my extended absence from the blog. You see, my wife had a baby Monday. This was our second and we had him at home. It was an incredible experience. Incredibly painful if...

In the interest of divorcing this subthread from the still-running Hayek discussion below, I give you commenter Jaybird’s immigration story: My wife is a Canadian citizen. She moved to the US via Fiancee Visa...

…about the New Black Panther Party or, for that matter, right-wing militia groups.  Jesse Walker:

The delightfully impious Roissy in DC is going after blogging superstar Megan McCardle, who evidently isn’t impressed by the so-called “seduction community.”  As usual, Roissy has some brilliant insights — for example: Ultimately, women...

In a recent post, Jason poses good questions about Confucius and how we view history more generally. As for Confucius’s idealization of the Duke of Zhou, the little I know about Chinese history suggests...

Sophists have gotten a bad rap, largely due to Plato. Dedicated to teaching arête or excellence to young men, their emphasis on rhetoric and persuasion might not have really been indifferent to truth or...

It was nice to see Br. Freddie back this week at the League.  Something that seems fitting given what I am about to say. I have already told the rest of the Ordinary Gents...