So I’m in Atlanta on the way back home from vacation. Naturally I saw THE WAY WAY BACK on Carl’s suggestion. It’s very funny. The audience laughed out loud time and again. The waterpark manager Owen (played by Sam Rockwell) is a knock off of Bill Murray in MEATBALLS. In this case . . . . Continue Reading »
Today there is an NRO piece by Kay Hymowitz about the regard many have for Huma Abedin. A few bits: Huma has won the hearts of many in the commentariat, not least Tina Brown, who tweeted Wednesday: “I say Huma for mayor. She has all the qualities he doesn’t.” . . . .Even . . . . Continue Reading »
One way to understand libertarian populism is as an attempt to put limited government politics on the side of the average American. You can look at the speeches of Obama and see how the president constantly tries to frame his higher taxing, higher spending, higher regulating policies as . . . . Continue Reading »
CJ’s comment below led me to Edward Feser’s fine philosophy-centered blog . I’ve read things by Feser in passing, heard his name spoken of with respect, but never really registered his overall excellence. (No, the recent Hart-Feser dispute in FT about natural law did not kindle my . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to Carl and Pete for some very thoughtful posts on LIBERTARIANISM. While I don’t care about Will Wilkinson as such, I will agree with Pete that he is representative of a trend among sophisticated young people: A kind of individualism that might be more evidence still of the victory of . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading’s Pete’s post below makes me think I need to learn more about libertarianism. I’m currently laying the groundwork for a book on American liberty, in which I argue there are five fundamental conceptions of it, one of which is the “economic individualist” liberty . . . . Continue Reading »
Will Wilkinson is a liberaltarian with a problem. Having some libertarian tendencies, he agrees with conservatives on some issues. The problem for him is that many conservatives do icky things like pray and have positive emotional connections with the American flag. The result is that . . . . Continue Reading »
THE WAY WAY BACK is a well-executed coming-of-age film, written and directed by Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, the same guys that did THE DESCENDENTS. You’ll enjoy it. It has a similar feel to that film, particularly in some of its observations on contemporary society, but a more engaging (and far . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the consequences of the inner city violence that Peter mentions in the previous piece was the rise of the SWAT team. The country’s first official SWAT team started in the late 1960s in Los Angeles. By 1975, there were approximately 500 such units. Today, there are thousands. According . . . . Continue Reading »
So I blame myself for the extended discussion in the thread of the Zimmerman case. But only here, at POSTMODERN CONSERVATIVE, is it intermingled with an analysis of one of Flannery O’Connor’s first stories. Summer’s here, and the time is right, to read Flannery once more. I have . . . . Continue Reading »
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