So, for reasons that I don’t understand, I got to thinking about the Ben Stiller movie Night At the Museum yesterday. Ben Stiller plays a failed inventor and entrepreneur who has trouble holding a stable job partly because he keeps investing so much of himself into failed business ventures. . . . . Continue Reading »
Someone recently told me that he was going to Detroit. I felt sorry for him, knowing that last trips to Detroit, driving form the Cleveland area, had been through areas that looked as devastated as anything seen in post WWII photos. I had not read of improvement, in fact of . . . . Continue Reading »
So this Acculturated review of THE BLING RING makes it sound pretty interesting, despite being directed and co-written by Sophia Coppola, who also wrote and directed LOST IN TRANSLATION, which many regard as one of the most criminally over-rated movies ever. But the interest will depend, I guess, . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve gotten a ton of (two) complaints about not posting this week. Why don’t you say anything about the Zimmerman verdict? I don’t have any special knowledge or deep opinion. I’ll tentatively say I agree with Jimmy Carter, who sensibly said the verdict was a reasonable . . . . Continue Reading »
tricky reflections here ALSO: Happy Birthday to JOHN PRESNALL! . . . . Continue Reading »
In the wake the House of Representatives voting for the bloated farm bill, Ross Douthat argued that, absent a view of the common good, Republicans end up acting primarily on the short-term interests of Republican politicians and the short-term demands of the part’s client groups. Enter South . . . . Continue Reading »
HERE . It, of course, features a long chapter on me that might also have been called Rawls and Transhumanism. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s Harvey Mansfield on the Jaume book discussed below, not so much highlighting the bad , but more the not-up-to-snuff : M. Jaume’s book excels in the introduction of figures in Tocqueville’s lifetime, now forgotten, such as Frédéric Le Play, Silvestre de Sacy, . . . . Continue Reading »
Brief review by British Tocqueville scholar Jeremy Jennings at Standpoint of this book . Can’t get the link for the review to work, so search for it yourself. The Good: Tocqueville as Pascalian Most intriguing of all is Jaume’s examination of Tocqueville’s relation to Pascal and . . . . Continue Reading »
According to the Washington Post, Luis V. Gutierrez quoted Paul Ryan as saying ““You’re a Catholic; I’m a Catholic; we cannot have a permanent underclass of Americans exploited in America,” Ryan is absolutely right, which is why Gang of Eight-style immigration reform is . . . . Continue Reading »
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