The Adventures of the Delineator: The Rescue of Princess Ama Part I
~by Jon Stonger From the Logs of Captain Dave: "You have got to be pulling me through a black hole!" said Doc. "This can’t happen. I know the universe is a cruel, perverse and...
Monthly Archive: August 2011
To Boldly Go Where No Two Men Have Gone Together Before
~by Ryan B I want to bounce off of this Alyssa Rosenberg post, not because we have a deep disagreement, but because I think she’s not being totally fair. She’s certainly right that Abrams’...
Class Warfare in London
I have very little patience for the school of thought that says that everything boils down to class warfare. But if I absolutely must pick a class — because some folks insist on it...
Hayekian Stimulus
If you watch this Hayek vs. Keynes rap again, you’ll notice that very rarely throughout are the two men actually disagreeing with one another. They’re largely talking past one another, with Keynes speaking directly to...
Apparently we have a Youtube page or something
Videos we post at The League show up here. Is this automatic or does someone have to set it up?
Storytelling & Politics
Drew Westen’s piece on the failure of the president to tell the right stories has met with much ire across the blogosphere. I find this odd. After all, the same people who often say...
More leftist internecine warfare!
Just to supplement a bit the central argument of this great post from Shawn, I’d like to point your attention towards the following from The Monkey Cage. In the post, Eric Schickler, “a political...
Nickel and Dimed Ten Years Later
TomDispatch has published Barbara Ehrenreich’s new afterword for the tenth anniversary of her now classic work Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Here is my favorite passage, although it’s definitely worth...
Obama, the left, and the two-party system
~by Shawn Gude Freddie deBoer had a good post recently bemoaning Obama’s illiberal tendencies. You should read the whole thing, but this passage touches on something I’ve been thinking about lately: Not a day...
Self-Referential Post
I confess: I’ve been engaged here at the League for this long only so that I can get my hands on the behind-the-scenes interface. Now that Erik has fallen for my long-laid plan, I’m...
On Movement Conservatism and Labor… (no, the other kind of labor)
Forgive me if I go a little regional: For those that still believe that movement conservatives are anti-government and pro-free market except in very specific self-serving circumstances, I might recommend taking a look at...
Question on Empiricism
I know what you’re going to say: I’m getting you to do my homework for me! But I’m working on designing my Enlightenment course today and I’m trying to select a single text for the English Empiricism...
Introduction/Overture/Prologue
It appears that my long-time moniker RTod is going the way of the buggy whip, “Trumwill,” and the edginess once associated with the Simpsons as I join the League’s regular posting… um… stable? Team? ...
Stocks collapse, threaten to go even lower than our opinion of Congress
Here’s Krugman: It’s not the whole story, but something like this threatens to develop: 1. US debt is downgraded, sparking demands for more ill-advised fiscal austerity 2. Fears that this austerity will depress the...
At My Real Job: The Decline of Men
At Cato Unbound this month, Kay Hymowitz looks at the trends and considers whether men are in decline: Women today are entering adulthood with more education, more achievements, more property, and, arguably, more money...
Rick Perry’s Christian America
~by Tom Van Dyke Well, the problem isn’t perhaps-GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry attending a semi-political prayer meeting. This stuff happens all the time. [His playing Pontifex Maximus for it and the potential political...
Politics is policy is policy is politics
In a response to my latest, Kevin Drum goes into greater detail as to why he finds the criticism and advice doled out by Westen (among others) unconvincing. I think he makes some good...
The Affluent (and Downgraded, Debt-Laden) Society
The late preeminent liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith once complained in The Affluent Society that where Democrats once stood for an issue of great importance in emphasizing production, they lost that issue by misunderstanding...
(Civil) War and Tragedy, Cont’d
Tossed off almost like an aside, and one of those lines I had to go back and listen to multiple times while somewhere on I-65 in the northern half of Indiana, Eric Foner speculates...
