On Money Richard Lee and April Koh, Yale Logos The Warm Rain Les Murray & Andrew McCulloch, Times Literary Supplement My Dinner with Irving Wilfred M. McClay, Mosaic The Invention of the American South Nick Ripatrazone, Marginalia Why Have Young People in Japan Stopped Having Sex? Abigail . . . . Continue Reading »
So saith Ozbama, the Great and Powerful, to an idealistic young Dorothy, a bright-eyed millennial Obama Girl wondering how she can ever get back to the land of expected economic American normality all her sweet elders told her about. What she needs is a strong dose of The Stanley Druckenmiller . . . . Continue Reading »
One distinguished humanist to another. . . . . Continue Reading »
A cold has severely damaged my already limited thinking abilities. I just rewatched “The Way of the Gun”. I saw it about a dozen years ago and remembered it as an enjoyable and darkly funny action movie with an exceptional performance by James Caan. Seeing it again, the movie, for . . . . Continue Reading »
In education today there is an ever-increasing anxiety—an anxiety which emphasizes student success as the end all and be all of education. The idea of student success is so nerve wracking that it permeates the most detailed of instructional activities. Lives and livelihoods are at stake. . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s Friday ! Here’s your weekend reading list: At Postmodern Conservative : why conservatives need new words (well, new old words); a discussion of Yuval Levin’s take on the ACA exchanges, and some highlights from the American Conservative ‘s piece on Marilynne Robinson. . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, I admit it. The American Conservative is awesome. I’ve had my issues with TAC over the years . . . . . . and likely would know of more if I still read it regularly (even if I do suspect the vitriol they fed on so eagerly during the aughties has gotten old for them by now), but when they . . . . Continue Reading »
An abortionist—-excuse me, I mean a women’s health practitioner—- leaves a woman bleeding on the table after she rejects a price increase : On Monday afternoon (October 14) Wu Zhaoqun, 18, went to the Yinshan Clinic in Dongguan’s Qingxi Town to get an abortion. Before the . . . . Continue Reading »
Yuval Levin has done some must-read reporting on the how the Obamacare exchanges are doing so far at National Review Online. Even given what you know already, it’s shocking: The tone of the CMS officials who spoke with me was a kind of restrained panic. What is the CMS? Boy, you’d better . . . . Continue Reading »
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