Andrew Sullivan, in 2006, failing to give credit where credit is due: First, they came for...
Month: April 2012
The UC-Davis pepper spray incident has come back into the news lately. Far be it from me...
In my previous post in this series, I gave a rough outline of Austin’s views and a...
This gives a brief (if overly patronizing and insensitive) summary of what bothered me about HBO’s new...
Radley Balko explains. The short answer? Public sector unions. Occupiers, be careful what you wish for.
Levon Helm was a musician’s musician. Raised near Helena, Arkansas, home of the King Biscuit Time, the...
Mitt Romney’s a vanilla fella. There isn’t much earthshaking to say about him for good or ill;...
“Whaam!” (1963) by Roy Fox Lichtenstein.
Mark Kleiman thinks the recently announced decision by Gov. Romney to give the commencement address at Jerry...
(I promised myself I would attempt to respond to this article on Yom HaShoah. The latter fell...
My former colleague Will Wilkinson offers some insightful comments on our intuitions regarding taxes, subsidies, and fiscal...
In the May 2012 issue of the Atlantic, writer Taylor Clark has an excellent profile of videogame developer Jonathan...
The Infamous Brad distills the independent report of the UC Davis pepper-spray affair.
In response to my recent post on what I called Obama 2012’s rather limited ambitions, valued reader...
From a note that I sent to Alan Jacobs, a few days after Steve Jobs died:...
Over at the Atlantic, Eleanor Barkhorn complains that the closeted young Christian characters of Blue Like Jazz depict...
At some point, the question of Mitt Romney’s faith will come up and loom much larger than...
In the past quarter-year or so, the economic news for the United States has been unpredictable. The...
January 1, 2012: If there’s a phrase from this passage that feels like it hits a...
About three weeks ago, we came up with twelve names for the “long list” for choices for...
