It’s probably not fair to pick on the National Review’s Michael Novak, because I’ve been seeing a lot...
Month: January 2012
There have been a number of comments on a recent post that have glanced sidelong at a...
(Spoilers for the first three episodes of ‘Homeland’ follow. Be warned.) I’ve been working on catching up...
From The Rural Blog: Studies regarding student mobility — how often students switch schools — has usually...
Speaking recently at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia, American novelist, Jonathan Franzen, attacked what he identifies...
For most privileged, professional people, the experience of confinement is a mere brush, encountered after a kid’s...
Maybe this would be otherwise if I’d followed the discussions around here of Charles Murray’s Coming Apart thesis...
We won’t make you read, though. We’re going to watch the first season of Fringe and talk...
This CBO study is being touted as proof by conservatives that the answer to this question is a...
From the Wikipedia entry: On September 1, 1951, as the Fisherman’s Special emptied its passengers, 62 fares...
Hey folks! I’m getting back to play writing with a screwball comedy. It’s about a corrupt big city mayor...
In my last post on this topic, we got through Hobbes as relative and Hobbes as overstated....
The porn industry is quick to raise the First Amendment as its primary argument against governmental intervention...
I wrote, some time ago, that Grant becomes the hero of Shelby Foote’s Civil War because “he...
Responding to this Spencer Ackerman piece in Tablet, in which the Wired.com senior writer comes down on...
(Note: For those that are stumbling upon this enterprise for the first time, an explanation of of...
I’m currently visiting family in Oklahoma, the state that passed a law last year that made it...
Stuck in an airport with my iPad yesterday, I came across this riff by Christian Toto over...
At the risk of abusing the rule of thumb that we Leaguers don’t have to abide by...
Or, well, at least in defense of a moon colony. That’s the ground I stake out in my...
