Monthly Archive: July 2010

Over at TAC, I blogged earlier this week on a particularly bad study calling for a more open immigration policy.  One commentator, addressing my points that immigration (of low-skill workers) depresses wages and increases...

The whole discussion over Erik’s post on Chris Christie the other day – beginning with the post itself, but also including the push-back against the post as well – seemed a bit tone-deaf to me as a...

Because this is what passes for hate speech. Pathetic. And if we gays and lesbians can’t overcome such arguments without the use of force, then we deserve to lose the battle of ideas. Update:...

Ross Douthat’s column this morning calling for a small-government class war against the wealthy is provocative and well-worth the read, even if it is a bit too lenient towards Republican politicians.  His underlying point...

Read this article.  No matter what one’s position on immigration or the Arizona law, it should be remarkable for one thing, and one thing only – there is virtually no discussion of whether the...

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,...

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...

Fine, I’ll go on record about whether San Francisco government workers should have their pop taken away, in case I ever have to testify about this before a Congressional committee. Nope. I don’t think...

As I get older, I find myself, really against my will, struck much more often by how far standards of decorum have fallen into desuetude. My usual evening walk will include at least a...

Okay, just so we’re all clear on this: Once upon a time, I proposed that we read the book “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” by Chris Hedges...

Good for him.  I never agreed with his intention-based approach regarding equal protection (see here) so his embracing the text and underlying principles is pleasing.

Timothy Sandefur’s answer? Banking.

If I were introducing a recent immigrant to the United States to our way of living, the first lesson I’d teach him would be “everything is always about the culture war.” He would be...

This is indeed a terrible shame, considering how scarce land is in Manhattan, but it’s also kind of amusing.

I’m personally fairly ambivalent about the issue of whether a certain municipality on the other side of the country bans soda machines in its public buildings (the whole “restrictions on what employees are allowed...