Dividing Dems into “wine-track” and “beer-track” voters is one of the most annoying cliches of the past few election cycles, so I respectfully suggest we turn to this breakdown of sports fans’ political affiliations...
The Financial Times on France’s turn-of-the-century Dreyfus Affair is worth reading.
Via National Review, here’s an interesting article on Lithuania’s belt-tightening response to the financial crisis: Faced with rising deficits that threatened to bankrupt the country, Lithuania cut public spending by 30 percent — including slashing...
From Foreign Policy: Which country has the highest percentage of its population in a DNA database? The answer, which may surprise you, is below the fold:
A quirky window into consumer behavior: As e-readers boom, bibliophiles take advantage of online anonymity to purchase more trashy romance novels. Will science fiction and fantasy authors enjoy similar dividends?
“Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson worries loading too many people onto Guam could capsize the island.”
It may be unfair to tar Philip Blond with David Cameron’s policy proposals, but this grab bag of measures intended to “give society a helping hand” gets at a criticism I tried to articulate...
The Sand Pebbles and The Great Escape are two of my favorite movies , so I’m not sure how I missed this collection of essays from The Cooler on Steve McQueen’s career. But you...
Via Galley Slaves, here’s an amazing story on the exploits of an international art thief. The intro:
Jonathan Chait points to this entertaining article on Hall and Oates’ hipster comeback. I think we can locate the roots of their popular revival here:
This is more for my own satisfaction than the edification of our readers, but I can’t let a great meme go to waste. I tried for the ‘gut instinct’ approach, but that left me...
Friend of the Blog Sonny Bunch hangs up his spurs at Conventional Folly. He’ll be missed.
If you’re looking for a good introduction to the Red Tories, David Brooks’ column does a much better job of explaining Philip Blond’s philosophy than my muddled post. Blond is also is speaking at...
Your faithful correspondent donned a collared shirt and ventured into Georgetown last night to listen to Philip Blond’s presentation on “Red Toryism” (Blond’s Wikipedia entry is here; the Porch has a good introductory post...
WSJ: “He cited the case of a painter whose stock in trade had been portraits of Lenin. The man was now earning his living churning out religious subjects. But, my friend added, so ingrained...
Via Alan Jacobs, here’s an interesting critique of modern fantasy writing from The New Atlantis:
Matthew’s criticism of St. Patrick’s Day is well taken, and as someone who’s given to teasing my “Irish” friends about their debased heritage and Papist superstitions, I should be very enthusiastic about putting St....
The League’s official NCAA tournament group is now up and running. Unfortunately, you have to register at ESPN to get in, but signing up makes you eligible for a generous prize package (to be...
To compensate for all our highbrow talk of philosophy, the classics, French cinema, and Battlestar Galactica, I’m thinking of setting up a League NCAA tournament pool. Drop a comment if you’re filling out a...
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on Paper: Inflation and the 2024 US Presidential ElectionA charming faith in the power of speechifying. Aristotle had a few things to say about what it takes…
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024There is also the fact of this emergent pattern: Hegseth: Multiple affairs and now information that…
on Safe Travels, Arthur FrommerI had two reactions to the news (from this post) about Frommer’s death. First, I’m very sorry about… on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024The optimistic version is theoretically they will all squabble with each other, potentially be easil…
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024A Project 2025 guy is going to head the FCC and use it to conduct witch hunts against Trump's critic…
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024In an administration that won campaigning on a myriad policies I think are awful, the appointment of… on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024"The 80's called." "Well, then. I should call them back." on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Linda McMahon is to be Secretary of Education.
on How Republicans Can Save Trump’s PresidencySeriously? One of the DoE's main jobs is energy policy and supply and while you might not like it, t…
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