Like pretty much the whole internet-reading public, I haven’t been able to avoid New York Times music...
Austin Bramwell
I am a freelance opinion-monger living in New York City.
The Bookshelf column in the Wall Street Journal yesterday (I know, ancient history in blogging time) featured...
(Cross-posted from @TAC.) Virginia Postrel argues this weekend that environmentalists favor high-speed rail and wind power not because they...
I confess: We are alternate side parkers. To make way for “Mechanical Brooms,” New York City prohibits...
Here’s my post-election reaction. The public school where I voted on Tuesday was giving books away from its library....
I’ve just never liked G.K. Chesterton — which, among the conservative Christians with whom I sometimes (though, as...
[Update: In response to comments, I have toned this post down a bit. It was unduly harsh in relation to the fault...
This comes 12 years too late, but I still think it’s worth correcting the record. In his...
I highly recommend this BBC documentary about Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who solved Fermat’s last theorem. In...
I just don’t get the hostility to Trig Trutherism. Over on Volokh, Dave Kopel takes Human Events...
In my first post in this series, I claimed that Charles Hill, Yale’s “Diplomat in Residence,” had...
So I had planned a running critique of Charles Hill’s appearance on Peter Robinson’s webTV program, Uncommon...
The cult of Charles Hill, of which I was not a member, was just beginning when I...
The delightfully impious Roissy in DC is going after blogging superstar Megan McCardle, who evidently isn’t impressed...
Over at TAC, I blogged earlier this week on a particularly bad study calling for a more...
The friend who pointed me to Joseph Epstein’s essay in the first place takes exception to some...
Reviewing the new history of Commentary magazine, Joseph Epstein writes: The chief problem facing John Podhoretz in his...
Andrew Manshel of an outfit called the Greater Jamaica Development Corp takes aim today at sainted urbanist Jane...
