Stirring the Pot
Via Alex Massie, here’s a telling example of the United States helping dissidents by minding its own business:
Author: Will
“Do Smart, Hard-Working People Deserve to Make More Money?
At The Baseline Scenario, James Kwak offers some provocative questions.
Scenes from a parallel universe
Rod Dreher exhumes a great YouTube clip of Kurt Russell auditioning for the role of Han Solo in Star Wars:
Stray thoughts on the NY-23 race
The cosmic significance of the congressional race in New York’s 23rd district has, I think, been wildly overblown by a conservative movement that seems obsessively focused on extremely narrow tactical issues (Van Jones, anyone?)....
Brett Favre Revisionism
A prolonged Halloween hangover is preventing me from commenting on the great issues of the day, but I did find this revisionist take on Brett Favre’s penchant for throwing disastrous interceptions pretty interesting.
Find a new conceit for your columns!
Here’s an original idea: take California’s liberal, high-tax model and contrast it with Texas’s low-tax approach. Aside from The Economist, Newt Gingrich, and The New York Times’ op-ed page, no one else has thought...
The Weekender
Weekends are usually pretty slow here at the League, but if you’re hankering for new content, check out our extensive podcast backlog. We’ve got Reihan Salam and Jamelle talking race and American politics, John...
More on the NFL and concussions
The Week has a good article on the reaction of many pro athletes to new concussion-related concerns. They’ve also put together a helpful summary of other news and opinion pieces on the subject.
The changing face of the apocalypse
Here’s an interesting nugget: Research shows that apocalyptic fiction has changed dramatically over the past 20 years: It’s not the idea of Ending itself that has faded – that will be around until we...
Bad Matt Taibbi impersonators make for bad book reviews
I’m not a huge Ayn Rand fan, but GQ really should hire someone a bit more coherent to write their obligatory libertarian smack-down. I mean, it just isn’t very fun if the author is...
How to save a fortune
I don’t consider myself particularly business-savvy, but in light of former Celtic star Antoine Walker’s financial troubles, I thought I’d throw out a potentially lucrative idea for the League’s would-be financial gurus. Every few...
Bad Cult Movies
I had the great misfortune of attending college just as several obviously bad movies – Clerks, Napoleon Dynamite, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder – inexplicably achieved cult status. The worst of the bunch, however, was...
Podcast: Brescia for Delegate!
I sat down with Eric Brescia, Republican candidate for delegate in Virginia’s 47th district, to discuss his thoughts on a few local issues as well as the future of the party. Eric is running...
Douthat calls for open religious warfare; thousands perish in ensuing Crusade
I am, frankly, taken aback by some of the reactions to Ross Douthat’s latest column, which makes the commonsensical observation that wavering Anglicans may find the Pope’s combative approach to Islam more attractive than...
The Case Against the Death Penalty
Spurred by a harrowing investigative piece from The New Yorker on the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, Rod Dreher has written a powerful op-ed opposing the death penalty: First things first: If Willingham really...
NFL “debunks” player concussion studies
Seriously, this should be a bigger deal. The NFL is literally making shit up about the long-term impact of player collisions:
The New White City, continued
At Vogue Republic, Kyle points us to this article on Portland’s racial shift.
“The Rise of Nuclear Alarmism”
John Mueller, at his counter-intuitive best. I routinely pimp his Foreign Affairs article on the terrorist threat, which is also worth reading if you’re looking for a measured assessment of the capabilities of stateless...
The New White City
I know this article on race and progressive cities has taken a lot of criticism, but its central observation – that liberal policies and homogeneous cities are closely correlated – seems pretty intuitive. Progressives...
