Why don’t people take the sequester seriously? How about this : In its bid to make the sequester as painful as possible, the White House announced Tuesday that it is canceling all visitor tours of the White House “during the popular Spring touring season.” This fits President . . . . Continue Reading »
A Video History of the Conclave Monsignor James P. Moroney, Rector’s Blog at St. John’s Seminary Hugo and the Hereafter Peter Wilson, Foreign Policy The Most Beautiful City Never Built Andrew Cusack So You Want to Be a Public Intellectual? Amanda Achtman, Intercollegiate Review Do . . . . Continue Reading »
Saturday evening, burned out and brain-dead after two weeks of grading papers, I plopped down in the living room to take advantage of my weekend by watching the first two Star Trek films. It had been, probably, fifteen years since I watched the 1979 Star Trek , and it was every bit as strange as I . . . . Continue Reading »
I think my main problem with this Arthur Brooks article is that it gets the emphasis backwards. The main Republican problem isn’t that they seem uncaring. More skilled campaigning would be nice, but better emoting about the plight of the poor with the same message of tax cuts for . . . . Continue Reading »
The Republicans are winning this one, according to John Feehery . We’ll see, I suppose. . . . . Continue Reading »
at Slate: In Sunday’s New York Times, med student and new mom Anna Jesus wrote about having a child in her 20s while still in graduate school. She thought she would wait until after her training to conceive, but a fertility problem appeared when she was in her mid-20s, so she and her husband . . . . Continue Reading »
Some economists have argued that the United States could flourish in permanent debt and even with an increasing debt, with sophisticated arguments the non-economist can’t really judge. The ones I read never raised the question of when the limit will be reached as presumably it must eventually . . . . Continue Reading »
This is fun—Mark Mitchell analyzes a Sprint television commercial: While it might be a mistake to make too much of an ad, it seems appropriate to “read” them as representing the current cultural vibe, for if nothing else, advertisers are keen students of what motivates their . . . . Continue Reading »
Many fans of the TV series Downton Abbey may have wondered about the source of the turns and twists of plot, the historical inaccuracy and stunning anachronisms, the clashing strains of progressivism and traditionalism all present in the show. Just as with the . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, YOU KNOW my answer. But I’ve been discussing my last post with a couple of distinguished conservatives by email. Here’s what one wrote: I suppose that’s right. The trick is that “progressivism” now equals “personal liberation” and nothing . . . . Continue Reading »
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