Red Tails is Not Proof that Hollywood is Anti-American
Stuck in an airport with my iPad yesterday, I came across this riff by Christian Toto over at Big Government on the success of George Lucas’s Red Tails at the box office: “Red Tails”...
Daily Archive: January 27, 2012
Why Public Education Is Different From Other Public Goods
At the risk of abusing the rule of thumb that we Leaguers don’t have to abide by the strictures of journalistic timeliness, I’m going to riff off of a Freddie deBoer post from last...
In Defense Of Newt Gingrich
Or, well, at least in defense of a moon colony. That’s the ground I stake out in my latest piece in The Atlantic.
Something’s Rotten in the State of Our Union
Many have debated the President’s remarks from last Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech. E.D. Kain thought it was very successful, providing the American audience with a “rousing speech about the American dream,...
The Realistic Bigotry of Reality in the Workplace
(While discussing Murray’s Quiz, I made the following comment and Will thought it was good enough for a post, so here’s the post version, slightly edited.) As silly – and limited – of a...
The More The GOP Contenders Debate, The More They Stay The Same
Once Wolf Blitzer had, remarkably, found a way to further insult the intelligence of his audience — asking the candidates why their wives would be the best First Lady* — I figured it was...
Friday Jukebox
I did a quick check of the jukebox archives and saw that is woefully short on country and bluegrass. That ends now. First one of my favorite standards. JD Crowe and the New South...
Consensus on Charles Murray’s Quiz
There’s been a lot of discussion of Charles Murray’s “How Thick Is Your Bubble” quiz from Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Surprisingly, I think we all generally agree on a few...
