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 »
The White House has started a cockamamie procedure where regular citizens can launch petitions and if they get 25,000 signatures the White House will respond. Some are serious, like the one to exempt Hobby Lobby from the HHS contraceptive mandate. Some are silly, like the one asking for Joe Biden . . . . Continue Reading »
U.S. District Judge Robert L. Miller Jr., a Reagan appointee, has dismissed Notre Dame’s lawsuit regarding the HHS mandate requiring coverage of abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilizations on the grounds of timing, as Notre Dame finds itself in “safe harbor” while awaiting . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in Foreign Affairs , Yale history professor Charles Walton charges that the new film version of Victor Hugo’s novel inaccurately neglects politics in favor of the religious message: Hooper’s cinematic rendering is stunningly staged and brilliantly performed, but it cuts the . . . . Continue Reading »
If friendship needs to be seen afresh in our time as an intimate love in its own right, distinct from the love of spouses or romantic partners, then we need stories of friendship that show us how its rediscovery is possible. I’m always on the lookout for such stories, and I just . . . . Continue Reading »
Please be encouraged by the sensible words of Quin Hillyer : Overall, then, tax-rate policy isn’t optimal after the deal, but it’s not terrible either. It’s better, as already explained, than anything the Gingrich Congress achieved . . . . And whereas President Obama was able to . . . . Continue Reading »
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