If I were a state governor, I would refuse to expand Medicaid under Obamacare because that is how the Feds seduce states into making financial commitments they can’t afford—pay for it at first and then later, pull out the rug. (O-care pays 100% for awhile, then 90%. But that . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing on his blog earlier this month, Walter Russell Mead warns against the hubris of a secular ruling class, using as his starting point Christopher Hayes’s book Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy . He touches on Hayes’s critiques of . . . . Continue Reading »
Chief Justice Roberts and the Changing Conservative Movement Joe Alicea, Public Discourse Does Quantum Physics Make It Easier to Believe in God? Stephen M. Barr, Big Questions Online Paint-by-Number Hymns Anthony Esolen, Catholic World Report Atheist Teleology Edward Feser, Edward Feser . . . . Continue Reading »
“ . . . repeat conservative language or ideas, even when arguing against them.” So saith George Lakoff, Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at U.C. Berkeley, the most prominent advocate for the view, that so many hard-core liberals and professional Democrats seem to buy into, . . . . Continue Reading »
Obviously I can’t add much to Pete’s perfectly pitched analysis. I will emphasize that Romney’s campaign is not going that well. Obama—with the assistance of the MSM of course—is doing better than I would have guessed in pinning the heartless oligarch badge on him. . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Okay, I’m a Jindal shill, but even apart from that, this Politico story about Jindal’s appearance on ABC’s This Week is interesting for what it says about media dynamics. On one level, the debate between Jindal and Maryland governor Martin O’Malley is deeply . . . . Continue Reading »
Once a society accepts the fundamental premises of assisted suicide—e.g., radical individualism and killing as an acceptable answer to suffering—there really are no brakes. Switzerland more than aptly demonstrates the thesis. Assisted suicide is up there 60% in the last five . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things warmly welcomes a new Junior Fellow, Anna Williams, who flew in to New York City just yesterday evening. A brief bio: Anna Williams is a recent graduate of Hillsdale College and a former Collegiate Network fellow on USA TODAY’s editorial board. At Hillsdale, she studied English . . . . Continue Reading »
Ramesh Ponnuru believes that Justice Roberts has ignored the normative dimension of law: The difference between a mandate and a tax is precisely the difference between, on one hand, a command that the citizen is morally obligated to obey and, on the other hand, a set of options open to the citizen . . . . Continue Reading »
This was published today in Comment, the daily publication of Cardus:Just before the dawn of the recording industry, popular songs were sold to the North American public in a format requiring of customers more musical literacy. When Let Me Call You Sweetheart and Down by the Old Mill Stream were . . . . Continue Reading »
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