The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal featured an article advocating the decriminalization of drugs. Economists Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy argue the war on drugs has failed, and social costs of continuing with our current laws are too high. Their solution is to legalize drugs use, and . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend sends the links to three compositions , Veni Sancte Spiritus , Christor Redemptor Omnium , and Creator alme Siderum , by a twenty-two-year-old English composer named Lawrence Whitehead. The composer discusses his writing of the first and latest composition here : My process for . . . . Continue Reading »
1. A couple of days ago I wrote about how some younger strongly Obama-approving voters had inclinations that overlap with the center-right. I’d like to add that I don’t think any statistically significant number of these voters are going to come around to a center-right political . . . . Continue Reading »
Me? I’m swamped with sweaty efforts to simultaneously move to a new house and bang a new syllabus into shape. Posting will be rare for a while. But you? You should rush to your local movie theater this instant to catch the second and third parts of the NY Metropolitan Opera’s simulcast . . . . Continue Reading »
We try to keep up with things in the journalistic world, for obvious reasons, but this story may be of less interest to those of you without a professional interest in the subject: Will Oremus at Slate.com reports that Irish Newspapers Say It’s Illegal To Link to Their Articles . An . . . . Continue Reading »
So Pat Deneen—on the distinguished ISI honors listserv thing—responded to my post below: Peter makes the very un-Tocquevillian point that the Republicans should ” work on the upside of devolving what entitlements there are to individuals.” I rather thought Yuval Levin made a . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I wish Pete could get before Republican leaders and yell at them about their rhetorical failings. They’re at least as clueless as he says. 2. Most people don’t care about the tax rate on the rich, because they assume they don’t really pay it. And usually they don’t. 3. . . . . Continue Reading »
It pleases me to speak to you all in the passive voice about Oaxaca. One wonders how much it is that the rules of grammar play with one’s moods. In Espanol, it’s all about “me gusta” instead of “I like” or even “I love.” There is “te amo,” but you . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Commentary, Jonah Goldberg writes: The vernacular of conservatism derives from a time when the country was churched and defined liberty as personal sovereignty. It needs to change to engage a country that is increasingly unchurched and incorrectly thinks liberty can and should be . . . . Continue Reading »
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