Monthly Archive: January 2011

In an attempt I will likely regret to move the continuation of the Civil War/War-Between (Among?)-the-States/War of Northern “Aggression”/War of Southern Interests in the Preservation of Chattel Slavery (did I cover all potential names...

With the exception of posts that pontificate on the deeper meaning of libertarianism or other political philosophies, the number of comments a given post (exclusive of “Off the Cuff” posts) at the League of Ordinary...

“These two former drug warriors, who spent their careers trying to enforce prohibition, think we should legalize part of or all of the drug trade. But the heroin-smoking dealer and the coke-snorting professional lean...

So, having heard for months that the Republicans really are serious about cutting government spending this time, and that they’d be able to do it without cutting Medicare, Social Security, or defense, even if...

“The triumph of the spiritual principle means, not the subordination of man to the universe, but the revelation of the universe in personality”. -Nikolai Berdaiev

National Geographic reports that explorers in Vietnam have just uncovered the largest cave passage yet found. It has “room enough for an entire New York City block of 40 story buildings” and can fit...

[updated] North sums up the differences between public and private sector unions quite nicely in the comments: -Private sector unions negotiate with business managers who are selected indirectly by shareholders/business owners. Public sector unions...

On behalf of my colleague Jon Rowe, I bid everyone at the League farewell. The merger between The One Best Way and the League of Ordinary Gentlemen has not worked as well as we...

In the comments to James’ post, Rufus writes about the city of my birth to suggest that perceptions on the death of American manufacturing writ large are at least partially the result of regional...

I got into a bit of a Twitter debate today with silentbeep over the symbolism of Rapunzel’s hair turning from blond and magical to brown and un-magical in Disney’s Tangled. While I think there...

In another thread I argued that U.S. manufacturing output was not in decline.  Not to be pushy, but just to back up my claim with data, here is a chart from Bureau of Economic...

Daniel McCarthy is the editor of The American Conservative, a magazine which “features much Toryism, anarchism, paleolibertarianism, and left conservatism, as well as many other mold-breaking ideas” as well as a number of very...

I took my three-year-old to see Disney’s Tangled over the holidays and was surprised by how good the movie was, and especially by the quality of the music. The only other Disney movie I’ve...

Voltaire, and the Epicurean philosopher Lucretius long before him, held up the Iphigenia story as a parable of religious fanaticism, but this seems to miss the mark a bit- this isn’t a story of religion, but...

Benjamin Rush — unlike the “key Founders” (Washington, J. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin) — was identifiably an orthodox Trinitarian Christian. And he seemed to connect his political philosophy to that more traditional form...