I’m a big fan of BloggingHeads, though I generally prefer the political or philosophical dialogues to ‘Science Saturday’ and the like. So I completely missed this controversy over inviting creationists on the show, which...
Apologies for diving into the morass of Virginia state politics, but the latest controversy surrounding Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell is pretty interesting. To make a long story short, McDonnell casually mentioned his master’s...
Here’s his much-anticipated column. It’s persuasive and depressing, though I think I disagree with his assessment. It also bears a striking resemblance to this recent article from Andrew Bacevich in Commonweal, which I took...
Two essential reads: 1) Adam Serwer takes on the Washington Post; 2) Peter Bergen takes on Dick Cheney.
I’ve been secretly infatuated with American fast food since about the third grade, when I got my first taste of the Great Satan of the slow food movement, colloquially known as McDonalds. At the...
I think I’d be downright enthusiastic about Bill Bradley’s plan to marry health care reform with tort reform. It seems to me that legal damages are basically an ad hoc way of compensating for...
Over the past few days, a few people have pointed me to this GQ profile of Ted Kennedy from 1990. It isn’t a fun read – liberals will undoubtedly wince at the first few...
Matt Labash on Marion Barry is not to be missed. Another point in favor of subscribing to The Standard?
I’m late to the discussion of politicians’ unique psychological defects, but this entry from Will Wilkinson caught my eye: The incentives of the political process create a kind of filter that selects for individuals...
I hope I’m not jeopardizing E.D. Kain’s perch at New Majority (congrats, E.D.!), but I do take issue with David Frum’s selective appreciation for one of my favorite 19th century political movements. In addition...
. . . and I’d be interested to get some feedback from our commentariat. I’m looking for something that’s reasonably priced, interesting, and generally sympathetic to conservative ideas (although not necessarily ideological). Here are...
Reflecting on Kevin Drum’s seventh ‘blogiversary’, David Adesnik has some thoughts on his own humble Internet beginnings and the evolution of blogging.
As I understand it, nobody suggests that torture is an ideal policy option. Most people who defend the Bush Administration argue that the unique threat of international terrorism justifies the use of certain otherwise-reprehensible...
I was able to persuade Steven Harris of Mary Washington College – one of my favorite undergraduate professors – to record a podcast on the Obama “Birther” movement. We also covered media fragmentation, the...
Without lapsing into Steynian hysteria, I think there are real concerns about the growing population of alienated, socially immobile Muslim immigrants in Europe. In that vein, Michelle Goldberg’s review of Reflections on the Revolution...
Given Pitchfork’s recent decision to recognize “Ignition (Remix)” as one of the greatest songs of the decade, I thought I’d re-post this entry from a few months back: R. Kelly’s legal troubles – as...
National Review’s response to former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s allegation that Bush pressured him to raise the terror alert status on the eve of the 2004 election is this stirring post from Kathryn...
Following Freddie’s lead, I confess I’m rather baffled by Alex Massie’s sympathetic take on the Lockerbie Bomber’s release. As I understand it, this is a man duly convicted of murdering hundreds of innocent airline...
Tom Ridge claims that Bush pressured him to raise the terror alert level to help win the 2004 election.
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