What Progressivism Is (Updated)
Back in 2010, Paul Ryan told Glenn Beck: …what I’ve been trying to do is indict the entire vision of progressivism because I see progressivism as the source, the intellectual source for the big...
Daily Archive: September 7, 2012
Left Unsaid: Why Barack Obama’s Convention Speech Was Far More Ambitious Than You Think
There’s a lot to say about Obama’s speech last night — besides the fact that, yes, as a performance it was underwhelming — but I think David Atkins gets closest to voicing my most...
Hayek and the Socialist Calculation
by James Hanley Apparently Hayek is in season again. James K discussed him just over a week ago, now Jason K (no relation, so far as we know) features him at his real job,...
SRSLY?
Vom. My only question is: What would they have done if it had been Tebow’s number that was deemed “criminal”?
The Distant Horizon: Critiquing Obama’s DNC speech.
Precis: Obama’s a different man now. Gone are the stratospheric rhetorical flourishes, the transcendent promises of post-partisanship. Four years in office has changed the man. My father would have called this a Shechem Sermon,...
First round is on me, Beltway guys and gals…
As I said a while back, I’ll be in Washington DC next weekend covering the Values Voter Summit. Since I know we have a fair number of readers and contributors from the Beltway, it...
The things that you can do with bread and cheese.
What I will write will sound like blasphemy to many, but I say to you, it is not blasphemy, but a new covenant between God and our taste buds. “What is this new covenant”...
