Given that the Civil Rights Act is in no danger of repeal and the libertarian-ish wing of the Republican Party offers some interesting opportunities for coalition building on civil liberties and foreign policy, I’m...
Mike Gibson takes a few shots at Patrick Deneen’s introductory essay on Red Toryism (hat tip: Will Wilkinson).
Via Good Magazine, here’s a blog that narrows Los Angeles’s cumbersome avenues. The results are incredibly striking:
Jason has just given you the liberal-libertarian disposition, so I thought I’d try my hand at explaining why I’m sometimes drawn to the conservative alternative. My knowledge of political philosophy is almost nil, so...
“A Jefferson County teacher picked the wrong example when he used assassinating President Barack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geometry students.”
Sometimes, I think I missed my true calling as a fabulist. TNR posts the hilariously overwrought resume of Adam Wheeler, a guy who literally conned his way into Harvard (and is apparently fluent in...
Ross Douthat’s latest column is very, very good. UPDATE: So are Rod Dreher’s thoughts on the subject.
How did Marlboro evade an EU ban on visible cigarette advertising for its Formula 1 team? Read on:
Erick Erickson’s idiotic damning conclusion: “This proves Elena Kagan is an open and avowed socialist.”
Here’s an interesting nugget on private investment in transportation infrastructure before the rise of the interstate highway system:
Via David Weigel, here’s a great profile of the blogosphere’s renaissance man.
I fall squarely in the “nay” camp, but here’s a nice summary of the debate over burqas in France from The Economist.
A few more idle thoughts on the preeminence of American Jewry: It’s not as if Jews haven’t played important roles in government before now – I once read that Charlemagne relied heavily on Jewish...
“If I’m a war criminal, then Barack Obama is a war criminal,” Rove said. Words every civil libertarian Democrat ought to chew on, I think.
This dialogue between David Frum and Jonah Goldberg has been getting some attention: Let’s bracket the “Is Obama a socialist?” question in favor of something a little less contentious. What, if anything, is the...
The Weekly Standard puts out some great long-form journalism, but goddamn is their blog spectacularly annoying sometimes. Here’s Daniel Halper, criticizing The Washington Post for hiring David Weigel to cover the conservative movement: If...
Faced with the unassailable fact that Obama’s much-ballyhooed foreign and counter-terror policies differ very little from the Bush Administration’s, Victor Davis Hanson is left spluttering: So when Obama and his team were dreaming up...
I usually shy away from linking to Reason, mainly because you’re probably reading them already. But this brilliant rant from Nick Gillespie on immigration and the Phoenix Suns deserves top billing.
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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…
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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… on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Which, very ironically, is good news in these benighted times.
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