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The Professor Grades

In grading candidates in debates, don’t let’s forget the rhetorical situation. It’s much easier to appear high-minded when no one is attacking you because you don’t count much, politically, for the moment. That would be Rick Santorum. He performed well enough last week, and . . . . Continue Reading »

An Eroding Taboo

A couple additions from The Tablet on the subject of yesterday’s Limited Commemorations , pointing out that much of the worrisome statements comes from liberal organizations: The Hitler Test , in which a Weekly Standard  writer argues that The editors of magazines and newspapers have a . . . . Continue Reading »

Perfectly Not Wrong

Not long ago I ran across a modern translation of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy on death. Shakespeare’s original is on the page above it, providing a most instructive comparison. The translation does a fine job of capturing the passage’s propositional content. I can imagine how much it . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama and Republican Virtue

Many—including Max Boot , Bill Kristol , Jonah Goldberg , and our own Matthew Cantirino —have remarked critically on the way that President Obama appealed to the manifest virtues of our military in his State of the Union Address . Let me join the chorus. What the President was reaching . . . . Continue Reading »

Limited Commemorations

“Hatred targeting Jews and Judaism remain disproportionately high,” writes the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in an article on the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, observed every January 27th. I’m not, by the . . . . Continue Reading »

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