There’s a New York Times report out today confirming that the CIA was more enthusiastic about protecting and utilizing Nazi war criminals than had previously been acknowledged. This ought to scandalize those who still consider the...
Some people move from pillar to post. Some can’t hold a steady job. In my case, I just can’t seem to hold a steady blog. How I got here, the short(ish) version: It seems...
This is Jon Rowe and I am going to be a new blogger here. But I am not alone. The One Best Way (formerly Positive Liberty, a blog eaten up by the technology monster)...
The best thing I’ve read all week, by a long shot, has been David Hart’s musings on J.R.R. Tolkien and his rather odd politics, what Hart describes as anarcho-monarchism. Here’s a letter from Tolkien...
Maximum rock’n’soul: If you ask me what the problem is with the radio today, I’d start with the fact that I never hear them play the BellRays.
Michael Drew makes a number of good points in the comments to the Simpson-Bowles post. Essentially, he believes that A) the trade-offs are unrealistic; B) they benefit the wealthy over the middle class by...
“The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” ~ Bertrand Russell, via commenter TKOEd’s comments in the first...
You think I’m a curmudgeon? Writing about “party schools” and their legacy students, Margaret Soltan ups the ante for scathing, funny critiques of our “Alexandrian culture”. Bless her soul.
Seven Against Thebes is a war play that shows no war. Rivaling the Homeric epics in its descriptions of the beauty and horribleness of warfare, the play instead shows its audience the helpless spectators...
(This post is part of an ongoing series about Western culture and politics, and how the potential brokenness of one affects the other.) Since we’re talking World War I in poetry this Veteran’s/Armistice Day,...
Many of the tax reforms are excellent. Simplifying the tax code, while reducing overall income tax rates makes sense. Lowering income-tax rates would not only be good in terms of stimulus, it would be...
Read this hilarious blog post from a New York chef defending “Four Loko,” a controversial alcoholic energy drink that tastes like “malt liquor gummy bears.” I usually scoff at attempts to define our country’s...
The King Drinks by Jacob Jordaens 1638-40 Oil on canvas, 152 x 204 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
…and which make better translations? I find Rousseau more readable in English; Montesquieu, in French. Voltaire was fluent in both, preferred French, and was correct to have done so. I’ve never seen a translation...
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...
I’ve been noticing a game lately played in the bookish corners of the left side of American politics. We’ll call it “We Know Hayek Better Than You.” It’s a game not without some attendant...
Jason’s post on what is properly called Armistice Day, and the end of the myth of the nobility of war make this pertinent. Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon I knew a simple soldier...
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on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025For sure and I could be convinced it's a 'bad take.' However if you take a look he actually includes…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025Marshall who is nobody’s idea of a slouch thinks calm and steady wins the resistance: To be very cle… on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025Jaybird, I would like a single bit of evidence that Democrats made a bigger issues of trans people t… on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025Zaid has a pretty good essay: Democrats Are Blaming Activist Groups for Kamala Harris’s Loss, but th…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025I think Philip has it correct. There are people who realize what is going on and I think resistance…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025Some of us are already well set on that line and how far across it the administration is. Others wil… on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025From a former OTer: "Trump announces federal funding freeze via EO. Head of OMB issues a memo with s… on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025I'm not sure one substacker is a credible weight on Trump’s Unforced Error31% if voters is not “the American people.” Not statistically anyway. It’s is both presumptuous and…
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