The porn-ification of American culture continues apace!
TNR on Playboy and modern America. Roger Ebert: “Making out is its own reward.” Hear, hear!
Author: Will
Marginalizing extremists, at home and abroad
The trouble with folks like Mark Steyn is that all their clamor about Europe being swept away in a tide of hostile immigrants obscures the very real problem of assimilating new arrivals. Steyn, for...
The Tea Party Movement Grows Up
Mark Hemingway gives the Tea Partiers credit for supporting moderate Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts senate election.
Pat Robertson’s Greatest Hits
In the wake of Pat Robertson’s latest foray into amateur seismology, Joe Carter compiled a helpful list of the good reverend’s most egregious public statements. Read it and wince.
Health Care Reform and the Constitution
A pretty good George Will column on the constitutionality of a health insurance mandate. I’m waiting on our resident legal expert to weigh in with a more informed opinion.
Evaluating Teachers
Opponents of merit pay often argue that performance-based compensation punishes good teachers for factors beyond their control. A new article from The Atlantic suggests that administrators and teachers are getting markedly better at measuring...
Journalism ain’t what it used to be
Foreign Policy collects a few hilariously anachronistic quotes from media coverage of England’s 60s-era counter-insurgency operations in Yemen:
The Age of Ideological Uncertainty
Indulge me, if you will, in a little self-reflection. I would probably describe myself as a libertarian conservative. I’m pretty sympathetic to the ideas of limited, decentralized government, free markets, and a decent respect...
For ‘Wire’ Obsessives
Here’s the trailer for David Simon’s new show and here’s the trailer (and press release!) for “The Avon Barksdale Story.”
Foodie Culture and Domino’s Self-Flagellating Ad Campaign
Slate dissects Domino’s latest television ad, which rolls out the company’s “new and improved” pizza after airing some especially brutal customer criticism.
Social Conservatism’s Millenial Makeover
Mother Jones captures the uneasy relationship between youth outreach and movement conservatism:
RINOs Through the Ages
An interesting article on 19th century conservative reformism from David Frum.
One Daily Caller feature I am genuinely excited about
They’ve got an “Ask Matt Labash” column. (For the definitive Labash article, go here)
Race and homeownership, continued
A few months ago, I recommended Jason Kuznicki’s excellent article on America’s history of state-sanctioned racial discrimination. In it, Kuznicki discusses the relationship between government regulations and social prejudice (emphasis mine): In a mobile...
Preach it, Brother Edwards!
A welcome manifesto for conservative civil libertarians from a former Republican congressman:
Taste and memory
Roger Ebert may no longer be able to speak or eat, but thank God he can still blog.
