Have there been good Christmas rock songs? I mean Christmas music here, not happy holidays fare like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” etc. The classical canon is of course full of beautiful evocations of Christ’s birth, the annunciation, the flight to Egypt, etc. And then . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THINKING by ME. Merry Christmas! . . . . Continue Reading »
THE NEW ATLANTIS ISSUE that is mainly a symposium based on the great presentations at the second STUCK WITH VIRTUE conference at Berry College are now online. Particularly noteworthy, perhaps, is the closing article by Bob Kraynak. . . . . Continue Reading »
HERE . I’m not posting this to diss Paul or rouse up West Coast Straussians or even Mr. Ceaser. I’m just saying that his “libertarian worldview” may not share much in common with the “progressive libertarianism” of our bourgoeis bohemians or even our Straussians. . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s the BIG THINK version of my below. Pete went further than I did the debate portion of the campaign somewhat of a freak show. Doesn’t mean he’s wrong. He’s also right that it would be right for candidates to call Paul out on his actual policy views—the ones . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The current primary-dominated system for selecting presidential candidates has its flaws, but I don’t see us going back to a system in which a conclave of party leaders choose the nominee. A party leader-dominated process like the convention would have spared us some of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Jay Cost has posted the fine comments he gave at Berry College a few weeks ago (at an event funded by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute). He was critical of the present nominating system for its lack of deliberation, drawing, of course, on the classic work of our own Mr. Ceaser. What’s . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m in an airport and a hurry. So no linking for me. But the newest Rasmussen poll has Romney at 25, Paul 20, Newt 17. Bachmann and the others are 10 or less. So I was wrong about Romney continuing to fade. Paul is probably still the favorite, but . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Typically messed up people and messed up middle class lives make an interesting story when there is no revenge for which one needs to make retribution, or when there is no obvious injustice to which human dignity requires courageous defiance in defense what is right. Without bloody revenge or . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . while Newt has swooned to third. Romney is in the same damn place he always is. Pete was more right than I was on Newt, although I was an early forcaster of a Paul victory. His organization, enthusiasm and all that might produce a bigger win than the polls now suggest—or Paul may have a . . . . Continue Reading »
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