I met Kenneth Lipp not long ago through a mutual friend in England and have already had occassion to be vastly impressed by the frenetic pace at which he works. As a junior research...
This month at Cato Unbound, Daniel Klein touches on a topic I’ve long found fascinating — Where do property rights come from? Although he doesn’t answer directly, he does challenge one popular modern idea,...
Just a week ago I noted that the suspect arrested by the FBI after having been encouraged over the course of months to plant a fake bomb which they themselves provided him; meanwhile an...
Jeremy Waldron is probably the foremost authority on the need to give human rights a theological grounding. This paper explores issues with using “Imago Dei” to ground human rights. A taste:
I just found out ten minutes ago that my friend Sean Carasov has committed suicide. The deed was carried out a few weeks ago at his home in California with a .45. I’d like...
This HBO made movie is worth seeing for Kathy Bates’ performance as Helen Kushnick, Jay Leno’s late manager.
Some enemies of Saul Bellow and friends of Allan Bloom have tried to cast doubt on the idea that Allan Bloom died of AIDS, a fact that Bellow spread in his roman à clef...
Years ago, I read that Americans on average thought we spent something like a quarter of our budget on foreign aid. It was a ridiculous overestimate, both then and now, and I figured the...
So, I wake up this morning all hung over and whatnot and thus decide to spend the day doing nothing, and then I see that there’s a trackback thingy on my most recent blog...
I quite commonly read blog commenters who argue that academics know less about the really important issues of politics than the average Joe. Let’s just specify what these folks are claiming. They’re claiming that...
This is neat, but I’m so paranoid that I immediately started thinking about all the privacy implications, which sort of colors my viewing in an unfortunate way. There’s a lot of very graceful and...
I have mentioned in passing my distributed think-tank Project PM which I founded a year ago in order to fulfill a narrow function but which has since expanded in intent quite a bit. Last...
I encourage everyone to read this fantastic New York Times article on how competing regional and ethnic mythologies contributed to The Civil War. No surprise here: The Yankees started it!
I know I should be talking about Four Loko or Thomas Friedman’s latest column on the horrors of deliberative democracy, but the start of a really compelling NBA season demands some sports blogging. Despite...
Today I clicked the unsubscribe link on an email from an academic products company and got the following incongruous message: Thank you for your interest. You are now unsubscribed.
Call me a cynic, but I don’t see WikiLeaks changing much — for better or worse — about the way the government both classifies information and conducts diplomacy. But until the noise subsides, it...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yet another review on Snow White. She has serious spoilers for the plot. Probably the biggest tell w… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I would say that Trump clearly believes Tariffs are a net positive to the economy and not (at best)…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Above, you give a fairly insightful statement: " All he needed to do was to do nothing substantively…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's just... he just... like... it's such a blizzard of bull that I'm hesitating on where to even st… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25He is indeed assuming that... but I wondered if what he said about China was true. I mean, if he sta… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25If you just want to know how bad things will be bad, you can probably find a best-case scenario by l… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25That would be why I totally ignored Telegraph/Yahoo after looking at it and did my own thing.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Ok, so I am not an administration apologist... Narrator: He is an administration apologist
on About Last Night: Voting Fun in Wisconsin and FloridaThe Dems ran a gun control activist for the House in Florida? They probably weren’t going to win any… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25He's assuming an entire drawer full of can openers and also ignoring pretty much the entire field of…
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