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Via First Things, The Acton Institute’s PowerBlog discusses the Christian origins of the welfare state: The church helped to bring about the welfare state in two ways. First, the Church embodied the idea of...
Good stuff on breaking up the banks from The Baseline Scenario. I find the idea of hard GDP caps on bank growth pretty attractive, both because this avoids another layer of needlessly complex financial...
A few days ago, Jamelle took a shot at “The Office”: It is actively painful to watch clueless mediocrities trudge through their jobs animated by little more than their mutual disdain and acrimony. And...
An interesting nugget from The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire [page 91]: Climatology is now infected by partisan polemics, but ice core studies that show rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere over...
Ever lamented J-Kwon’s lack of musical staying power or the inexplicably short career of S Club Seven? Billboard’s list of the decade’s most popular one-hit wonders may not put either act back on the...
I’m a few years removed from the college admissions process, but this is a pretty novel selling point.
I missed this the first go-round, but McSweeney’s parody of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky on The Lord of the Rings is pretty funny.
On the fringes of the internet, you often hear that the science of hereditary racial differences is settled, that racial equality is a convenient fiction that doesn’t stand up to real scrutiny. So you’ll...
Tennessee Mayor accuses Obama of deliberately preempting “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in his speech at West Point because he’s “a secret Muslim.”
Disney’s Robin Hood: Harmless children’s story or covert rightwing parable?
Here. It may be the most persuasive Human Events article I’ve ever read (via).
Stephen Walt tallies the human cost of US interventionism in the Middle East. Some people will inevitably misinterpret this as a strained argument for moral equivalence, but read the whole, caveat-laden post before you...
A while back, William Brafford wrote about Michael Walzer, author of “Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands,” and the issue of torture. Walzer revisits his article in an interview here.
Via Will Wilson and MR, here’s an interesting paper on the Protestant work ethic: Many theories, most famously Max Weber’s essay on the ‘Protestant ethic,’ have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development....
I was going to write a longer post on this, but one interesting consequence of Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan (a decision I support, however tentatively) is the ad hoc redrawing...
Damon Linker on appeals to common sense in American politics is worth reading, even if he overlooks the fact that like all rhetorical tropes, celebrating the intuition of the American people is a thoroughly...
Jonah Goldberg (among others) seems offended by the fact that Obama blames the situation in Afghanistan on his predecessor. Blaming Bush may be evergreen for the Democrats, but in this case, it happens to...
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on The USAID Fight Is About Power, Not Spending"[T]he government asserted that the Air Force should not have Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Train… on Kansas City wants to Score the first Threepeat against the Philadelphia Eagles in New OrleansI'm not sure it's meaningful to compare sales numbers from opposite sides of 2010. Foxworthy's album…
on Off With Their (Over)heads: Trump Administration at War with Public HealthI like how you’re pretending the issue is ‘this stuff being exposed’ instead of ‘executive overstepp… on Off With Their (Over)heads: Trump Administration at War with Public HealthI like how you're pretending the issue is 'this stuff being exposed' instead of 'executive overstepp… on Open Mic for the week of 2/10/20254 Employees at DHS are being terminated for making these payments. Huh. Didn't know that that was an… on Open Mic for the week of 2/10/2025No, that only refers to members of a *MILITIA*. Which undocumented tourists aren't.
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