Not Another Culture War!
“Figuring out how to restore growth and how to construct an effective but affordable safety net, are questions for debate, analysis, and democratic decision-making. My answers to those questions may differ from yours, but...
Monthly Archive: July 2010
David Brooks and the Demand Siders
David Brooks is mostly making sense in his latest column. He’s absolutely correct that more and more indiscriminate stimulus spending is a dubious economic fix at best, and has long-term implications including new unfunded...
Childhood poverty in America
David Frum examines child poverty in America and also notes that economic mobility is not quite what it is sometimes made out to be compared to other developed nations. The below graph illustrates this...
Prop. 8 and the Future
Jonathan Capehart makes the case that if California’s Proposition 8 were to be struck down in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, we could expect a significant anti-SSM backlash, possibly including a federal constitutional amendment. Meanwhile, a...
Site issues
I’m sorry if the League is being blocked for possible security threats. I’m not really sure what’s going on. I thought I had found the culprit lodged into one of our posts earlier, but...
Mitch Daniels picks five books
This is a very interesting interview with Indiana governor, Mitch Daniels at Five Books. I won’t go into a great deal of detail (you should just read the whole thing) but I must say,...
Toward a producerist society
I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that The American Scene’s Noah Millman has been on a roll lately. I meant to comment on this piece of his a while back but never got...
QOTD
“Anyone who saw both World Cup matches today, with the underdog Dutch knocking out the heavily-favored Brazilians, and the entire, heart-stopping Ghana/Uruguay game knows that Thiessen is so full of sh*t about the excitement,...
Not Even Joseph Epstein Speaks Freely about the Conservative Movement
Reviewing the new history of Commentary magazine, Joseph Epstein writes: The chief problem facing John Podhoretz in his editorship of the current-day Commentary, I would say, is not the distraction of the Internet or the...
Plato: Theaetetus and Arguing with Others
When we occupy ourselves with countering other people’s ideas, are we defining our own ideas in a roundabout way or just killing time? The Western style of argumentation includes a strong oppositional facet that...
The future of the American family
Reihan has a fascinating post looking at the future of the American family. Basically two different family types are taken into account. The first is the neo-traditional family, which Brad Wilcox explains thusly: I...
Charmed Life
I finished reading Diana Wynne Jones’s Charmed Life a few days ago. As far as young adult fantasy goes, it was quite good with more than a few unexpected twists. It wasn’t as funny...
Honor and the past
This might be the most ridiculous article to which I’ve ever taken the time to respond. Seriously, I keep pausing and deleting, as though I was about to draw a larger lesson from an...
Salary Caps Are the Epitome of Capitalism
…Or at least that’s the takeaway I get from this remarkably idiotic attempt by Marc Thiessen to paint soccer as “socialist” because France.* I realize this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but this isn’t even good...
Toward a positive conservatism
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” – Marcus...
On Burning Cop Cars and Stagecraft
A screaming came across the sky. The pine needled hush of cottage country was briefly, but violently, punctured by the deafening whoosh of low-flying fighter jets this weekend. Passing directly over our family cabin,...
What’s Wrong with Copyright
Notice-and-takedown is creaky, and the intellectual foundations of copyright are creakier still. But the whole thing more or less works. Kind of. Until you see this — the Rothko Chapel with Barnett Newman’s Broken...
The High Road and the Low
Jim Henley expresses something that had been in the back of my mind, in some form, for a very long time: Across a whole range of problems there’s a class of responses I’ll dub...
L’Affaire Weigel
The blogosphere has been abuzz the last week or so over some e-mails sent to the JournoList list-serv by Dave Weigel that were less than respectful to conservatives. As a result, Weigel was forced...
