The Revolution always eats its own. Wokeness, identitarianism, anti-racism, progressivism – whatever label one chooses to affix – has become an integral aspect of modern politics and the academy. Universities, high schools, and extracurricular...
“You recently asked me what it is conservatives conserve and more importantly – what it is conservatives have to offer people like you.”
Why not support Trump? It’s a simple answer really, but let’s begin with another more pressing question: Why not be a conservative?
There are folks paid to write, and readers paying to read, much less than what Ordinary Times has produced daily for over a decade now.
Multiculturalism can be a good thing. Multiculturalism can be a bad thing. These statements are not mutually exclusive, though most people assume they are. At least in the United States, attitudes toward multiculturalism exist...
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen starts off the new year by proffering two new terms involving classical liberalism and libertarianism
Outside the ivory towers of prestige publications and think tanks, something interesting is happening — or rather, not happening.
Statistics wizard Nate Silver talks about the re-launch of FiveThirtyEight on ESPN, political punditry, and burritos.
Libertarians largely agree that the Drug Wars needs to end. Their latest Internet folk hero, however, might make ending those Wars that much harder.
Note: This is part of an ongoing series I’m doing on the growing dangers we face by becoming more ideologically rigid. They are not intended to go in any particular order, and would be...
Over the next several weeks months I will be writing about the recent ascendance of ideology in the United States and why it worries me. Specifically, I worry that the voting public’s generations-long desire...
by James Hanley Thanks to all who took the time to take the IDEALog survey and report their results to me, and my apologies for taking so long to present the results. I’ll present...
~by James Hanley Fellow reader Stillwater, responding to my critique, writes: you [Hanley] keep insisting there is this significant difference between our theories, our policies, our preferred values, our analytical methods. If there isn’t...
So what did I think? The Hunger Games is about the empire of economic necessity. If you’re a human being, congratulations. You’re playing the hunger games too. Within just a few hours, you will...
~by RTod Two weeks ago I wrote a guest post for the League; it essentially had two central thrusts at its core: The first was trying to define a kind of principle-centered pragmatism. But...
Unlike Lisa, I’m hesitant to describe populism as a complete ideology. The characteristics of American populism she identifies – evangelism, a healthy skepticism towards meritocratic achievement, a reverence for the “ordinary” – are certainly...
[Updated] Writing of Evan Bayh, Ross Douthat opines: America needs politicians who stake out interesting, politically-courageous positions on important policy questions. What it doesn’t need is politicians who occupy the safest possible ground on...
Jonah Goldberg has a very smart response to Jim Manzi’s reflections on “liberty-as-means” libertarians vs. “liberty-as-goal” libertarians. I want to focus on Jonah’s post here, but you should read Manzi as well. Jonah writes:...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsPhilip: If the political speech of neonaz.is is protected by that constitution (and they are direct…
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsSo you agree that political speech the president doesn’t like is grounds for expulsion? Weird flex b…
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationsif the israelis had shared what they knew he wouldn’t have gotten citizenship of any kind. his visa… on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Problem: Himselfhey, jay. thanks for reading. i think you hit the vein. he’s been around a long time. on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Today’s Senate Intel Committee hearing revealed the Mid East envoy in the chat was in Moscow as it w…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I think it puts a message in the chat, though it's been a while since I added someone to a chat, som…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25One has to wonder why we would _ever_ detain someone even if they did flatly say they were going to…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25A wise lord? on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Mike Waltz is married. The woman to whom he is married has a sister. This sister is married to Scott…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25As the supreme deity of the Zoroastrians, he's a good bit more than "a pretty wise guy." If you beli…
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