I’m a little embarrassed to say that despite having studied philosophy in college and still being a self-proclaimed philosophy geek, I had never heard of Charles Taylor before yesterday’s Charles Taylor Thursday. But clearly...
Ordinarily, “Don’t Feed the Trolls” is impeccable advice. Ordinary standards, however, do not apply to Radley Balko, whose course on Advanced Troll Feeding should be a prerequisite for graduation from Blogger University. (Via Transplanted...
I’m always drawn to these kinds of studies, even though they’re never really insightful. This one mainly backs up what everyone already knows about geography and age demographics among partisans (is it really any...
Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist. His most book A Secular Age is an examination of modern secularism and the cultural conditions that gave rise to it. There’s a phrase that...
Former Republican congressman, subsequent convert to libertarianism, controversial 2008 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate, and proud Tea Partier, Bob Barr endorses Sen. Russ Feingold, one of the most liberal members of the Senate but also an...
UPDATED:I made a significant mistake in the original version of this post, which has now been corrected as noted below. I do not believe the correction affects the point of the post, though. Over...
When a fairly safe drug becomes illegal, other things often step in to fill the gap. Sometimes, they’re a lot less safe. We all know that alcohol prohibition led to bathtub gin, a substitute...
Writing at National Review, Conrad Black has many disparaging things to say about the War on Drugs and about the prohibition of marijuana specifically. For example: For blacks, the chances of being arrested and...
NPR has an extraordinary scoop on the birth of Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 illegal immigration law: Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico...
This video – via Radley Balko’s digs – is a good illustration of the many job-destroying, prosperity-hampering, mind-boggling regulations that various local governments have in place which make it harder for you and me...
Yesterday, guestblogger E.C. Gach asked: So the question I leave to you is, are Americans driven to crappy prime time sitcoms to escape the mess that is our national politics, or is our national...
Compare and contrast: Consumer culture leaves Americans better prepared for hard times. Meanwhile, older virtues help Ireland weather the recession.
Image via Wikipedia I apologize in advance for the liberal use of quotes in this post, but I wanted to add a few thoughts on the Lind piece I linked to yesterday. Lind makes...
by Transplanted Lawyer (Cross-posted from Not a Potted Plant) Once upon a time, illegal immigrants getting welfare were used as whipping boys to drive voters to the polls. Then it was gays trying to...
I wonder how many people are going to vote against California Prop. 19 next week — while rationalizing that their own marijuana use was merely a youthful experiment. That’s one heck of a rationalization,...
Image via Wikipedia All three of the great Athenian tragedians (Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles) dealt with the story of Orestes and Electra killing their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus in revenge for their...
As of last week, we all know that Christine O’Donnell doesn’t much care for separation of church and state. As far as surprising campaign knows goes, that’s near the very bottom of the list,...
This morning Matthew Yglesias somewhat strangely faults F. A. Hayek for not being sufficiently brilliant, I guess. He quotes The Road to Serfdom as follows: Nor can certain harmful effects of deforestation, or of...
by E.C. Gach Last winter I was struck by a Jacob Weisberg piece over at Slate. The thrust of the article was the following: all of our political troubles are the result of…well…ourselves! People just...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Thank you. That's a wonderful summation.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's kind of weird how Argentina got an American President and we got an Argentinian President.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yea I don't can't decide whether I want the rest of the world to take it in stride in light of Trump…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25One China in theory, two in practice. For example, Taiwan has long had permission to buy almost lead…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's a new height of idiocy from a dude who already was setting new records for it. He even, fishing… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25alienate long standing allies + massive regressive tax increase + self imposed recession + ????? = A…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Fun fact that the American Media has not noticed but China sure as hell has: The tariffs list Taiwan…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25That seems plausible, sicne their estimates of the tariffs each country is putting on the US are way…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The new tariffs seem to have be set by AI: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h3bil6wi4j2odx5exizuwh3j…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Here is the Treasury Secretary freaking out: https://bsky.app/profile/fffanatic06.bsky.social/post/3…
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