It is a Saturday, but big debate tonight. Gingrich has to decisively win his clashes in order to maintain his debater invincibility cred. If he loses that he is just another guy who used to be for cap-and-trade and a federal health insurance purchase mandate. It isn’t impossible that . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the warming skeptical blog Climate Depot, Lord Monckton analyzed the proposals for a comprehensive anti global warming treaty. There is much he describes about which to be alarmed and oppose implacably. For example, apparently an international global warming court is . . . . Continue Reading »
When Monsanto developed bovine growth hormone, the FDA determined it was safe. Fine and dandy. But when some milk producers labeled their food as being BGH-free, why Monsanto sued claiming that such labeling implied that their product was unsafe, and hence a form of defamation. In . . . . Continue Reading »
The author of the magisterial Republics Ancient and Modern , Paul Rahe, has had two great pieces in Ricochet of late. Today , its a comparison of John Lindsay, late 60s/early 70s mayor of New York City, with the One. Lindsay’s is an interesting story on its own terms, and considering it . . . . Continue Reading »
If I make my course materials availabe to students on their wireless devices, they’ll study a whole 40 minutes more a week! While they’re working out! While they’re standing in line! While they’re in the bathroom! And if this extra 40 minutes a week . . . . Continue Reading »
Higher education economist extraordinaire Richard Vedder asks whether the cost of higher education will be an issue this campaign season and thinks that Barack Obama is getting his ducks in a row to make it one. The well-publicized summit earlier this week with college presidents was, he . . . . Continue Reading »
In a fascinating admission today, David Brooks claims that of all the GOP candidates the one “who comes closest to my worldview is Newt Gingrich.” Despite his erratically shifting views and odd phases, he continually returns to this core political refrain: He talks about using . . . . Continue Reading »
In an astoundingly wrong-headed piece written for The Atlantic , Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has taken up the cause for the “98% of sexually active Catholic women.” Appealing to the example of the Virgin Mary’s parents, “Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, a reminder that women are . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest On the Square feature, Gabriel Torretta reviews Italo Svevo’s novel Zeno’s Conscience : Thus concludes the self-assessment of Zeno, the vice-ridden, spineless, hypochondriac narrator of Italo Svevo’s modernist classic Zeno’s Conscience , . . . . Continue Reading »
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