As of right now, I’m willing to forgive Ron Paul a heck of a lot. Barney Frank...
Month: June 2011
Read the story, then read the story behind the story. Then comment.
[Ed. Note – I realize this is beating a dead horse at this point, but in my...
by E.C. Gach It looks like there’s three different categories of critique which aim at rebutting this...
(This post originally appeared at Forbes. I’m posting it here partly because I think it’s a consistent...
Christopher Carr makes an interesting counter-point to my assertion that the Metcalf piece “bodes ill for the...
If anything, I have become more and more of a libertarian the further I’ve moved to the...
Andrew Sullivan’s recent apologia—or, perhaps, obituary—of conservatism makes at least one very good point: Modern conservatism has...
Ezra Klein offers a strong response to the right-place, right-time, right-attitude argument about George Washington’s greatness. As...
I thought X-Men: First Class was loads of fun, largely because of Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy....
In a lengthy, passionate, and strident new essay on Slate.com, Stephen Metcalf cites the example of Harvard...
Spoilers after the leap… (First half of the post may have season one show spoilers, after that...
I see Elias Isquith just read F. A. Hayek’s “Why I Am Not a Conservative.” This essay...
Please welcome me in joining Will Truman who will be blogging alongside Burt Likko at Not a...
I see that the Southern Baptists have re-affirmed their belief in hell as “an eternal, conscious punishment,”...
From a recent — and typically funny, snotty and merciless — Christopher Hitchens review of David Mamet’s...
The Big Man comes on at about 4 minutes in. Strange to think of Clarence Clemons and...
Original fiction from Jason Kuznicki.
This is government, in one comic panel.