Michael Kazin in Dissent, echoing some of my concerns in recent posts: But the meaning of liberalism...
Year: 2012
Over the weekend I posted the argument that unlike with other elected officials, in today’s modern media...
In his writing on the Civil War and American slavery, Ta-Nehisi Coates frequently refers to a “war”...
Does the Constitution assume certain presuppositions on the part of those it means to govern? If so,...
It appears that Tim Tebow and his legal team are about to file a lawsuit against Cubby...
You don't vote for Presidents for the reasons you think you do.
The situation in Greece seems to be coming to a head, with the Greek people near-united in...
Boegiboe and I are headed to Las Vegas a little early — as in, today. While we’re...
A long, long post about my views on natural rights theory, much of it recycled from my...
“We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced...
Over at Forbes I have a post detailing why I think somebody needs to make a Monty...
I. The Task: Why so awkward? Everyone who writes for The League is ordinary, but some are more ordinary than...
Last December on the day after my birthday, I received an email from Netherlands public radio. One...
Wendell Berry’s recent Jefferson Lecture was not, as both his supporters and detractors have acknowledged, his finest...
~by M.A. Conor P. Williams, in Conservatism Isn’t Radical—It’s “Modular”, argues that there is a certain amount of...
Recent census figures show that for the first time more than half the children born in the...
After reading Will’s post yesterday about baby names, I started poking around in the Social Security baby...
Though the post-Lugar media tide has subsided, the American Right’s growing radicalism is still a leading theme...
James Lipton offers some good, though likely impossible, advice to Mitt Romney (via The Dish.) Politics is...
Something David Ryan wrote about dark art and wanna-be-sophistos has had me thinking for a while –...