Joseph Stiglitz, an economist who won the Nobel-Prize for his work in information economics, observed in a recent column that, “for male workers, inflation-adjusted median incomes are lower today than they were in 1968.” The data Stiglitz used came from a recent Census . . . . Continue Reading »
Reparative Therapy Renounced Erik Eckholm, New York Times Even More About NFIB v. Sebelius Tom Christina, Library of Law & Liberty David Oderberg’s New Location Via Edward Feser, David S. Soderberg Front Porched Avengers David Masciotra, Front Porch Republic William Gilpin’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Adam Kirsch has a charming essay marking the 100 birthday of literary critic M. H. Abrams over at the Tablet , one well worth reading. I may have read Abrams’ most famous work of criticism, The Mirror and the Lamp (1953), as an undergraduate or graduate student. But it was his other big book, . . . . Continue Reading »
Both This Is Spinal Tap and Repo Man are cult films that make fun of a rock youth culture, metal and punk respectively. Repo Man is the better of the two (again, my original listing of the best pop music films is chronological , not in terms of quality). One reason is that while This is Spinal Tap . . . . Continue Reading »
Somebody really doesn’t want you to read Secondhand Smoke. Last week, an attack of some sort made Google, Firefox, and other sites think coming here could hurt readers’ computers. Joe, the IT guy got rid of it. And now it is back. Don’t you love freedom lovers?I am . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the excellent blog ARTERY BLOCKAGE . The author is clearly one of the 22 Americans who has read and understood my Modern and American Dignity . And he’s added quite thoughtfully and provocatively to what I wrote: As the family, the church, and the social state weaken, colleges . . . . Continue Reading »
Most readers of “First Thoughts” are likely, being mostly conservatives of some sort, to feel that things are always getting worse and that the contemporary world has fallen a few steps down the slope towards decadence from the position its predecessors held. In many ways things are . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel reflects on baseball’s All-Star game : For the past two decades I’ve taught in Cracow every July. I’d not trade the experience for anything, but it’s had one drawback: I haven’t seen baseball’s All-Star Game in a long time. The game itself is no big . . . . Continue Reading »
Is the “individual mandate” in the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) a penalty, or a tax? Over at NRO ‘s Bench Memos, I’ve been offering a defense of Chief Justice Roberts’ decision to read it as an exercise of the taxing power, not of the commerce . . . . Continue Reading »
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