Daily Archive: November 8, 2011

/// November 8, 2011

Just Because Someone’s Not an Engineer Does Not Make Them a Hippie

One of the more curious things that the Occupy Wall Street phenomena has wrought has been making those not within the Occupy tribe channel my dad circa 1968. One of the memes in the...

Elias Isquith

/// November 8, 2011

Nothing succeeds like repeated failure

While it’s long been conventional wisdom on the Left that the Republican Party is doing whatever it can to ensure the economy stays horrid just long enough for the President to lose his reelection...

Rufus F.

/// November 8, 2011

Ibsen’s “Ghosts” of long dead values

Currently, the Soul Pepper Theatre in Toronto’s distillery district is staging Ibsen’s Ghosts; thus one can safely dissect the hypocrisies of the 19th century Norwegian bourgeoisie in the happy company of the 21st century...

Erik Kain

/// November 8, 2011

Fantasy and High Fantasy

Alyssa Rosenberg and Adam Serwer both have responses up to my post on fantasy and the Anglosphere. Adam correctly notes that what I’m writing about in particular is “high fantasy” – a sub-genre of...

Erik Kain

/// November 8, 2011

The dangers and the promise of a strong central state

I have a long(ish) piece up at Forbes asking liberals to take the civil liberties record of Barack Obama more seriously – I’m basically riffing off of this excellent piece by Conor Friedersdorf at The...

Jason Kuznicki

/// November 8, 2011

College is a Consumption Good

Blunt Object writes: Looking at Alex Tabarrok’s data, it seems that (a) college enrollment is up by about 50% over the past 25 years, and (b) most of the increase has come in “soft”...