So I’m here in Richmond at the ISI Honors Conference. I’m trying to think up stuff to say about the theme of RIGHTS AND DUTIES. Here are some tentative observations, which may or may not be part of my talk on Thursday morning. So we’ve heard plenty of reasons so far this week why . . . . Continue Reading »
“I don’t think [the Republicans] would make it easier for small businesses.” “A corporation, maybe, absolutely. A small business?”- Report by the College Republicans Those quotes from young voters give you an idea of part of the Republican party’s problems. . . . . Continue Reading »
Video On Demand is not something that needs words to be spoken in its favor. It has plenty of advertising, and it is something good for a few bucks on a boring night. That said, in one day I was able to watch two movies on VOD directed by two highly regarded directors from the past days when movie . . . . Continue Reading »
My policy on the Egypt debate is to be charitable, assuming that no-one has a full handle on things. For example, when a commenter recommended a Spengler column that savaged the Reuel Marc Gerecht essay I had partially recommended , I was pretty repelled, even though I had rejected Gerecht’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Should Republicans seek to pass a continuing resolution to defund Obamacare? Senator Ted Cruz thinks so. Punditor Charles Krauthammer thinks not. Me, I really want to join Cruz’s call to battle, but I just don’t see how you ever get a veto-proof majority to do this, and in the midst of . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks thinks so. . . . . Continue Reading »
Jeff Sessions deserves a lot of credit for this memo he wrote on the Senate’s (really Charles Schumer’s) immigration bill. Sessions rightly points out that the Senate bill would enormously increase low-skill immigration and that this would damage the economic prospects of low-skill US . . . . Continue Reading »
Allan Carlson at Imaginative Conservative reviews a 2009 book by historian Alan Pertigny, The Permissive Society: America, 1941-1965 . The title pretty much says it! Pertigny argues that the sexual revolution, and many related trends, were already well underway prior to the advent of the Pill and . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a bit more on my effort to update our understanding of THE MIND OF THE SOUTH (the title of a quite singular and strange book by W.J. Cash) : Cash did follow Mencken—and genuine Southern Stoics such as the poet William Alexander Percy—in having a very poor opinion of the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I will be speaking at a BIG-TIME PANEL at the APSA against NSF funding for political “scientists.” This is on the basis of a quicky blog that was linked here and there as an example evilthinking. I could bring up the noetic heterogeneity issue. But it seems to me that the expanded . . . . Continue Reading »
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