So our friend Mickey Craig has sent me a link to John J. Miller’s nice overview of the life and thought of Harry Jaffa. The link is important, because it allows you to read the article without the cost of subscribing to THE NATIONAL REVIEW. Miller’s key claim: “Modern . . . . Continue Reading »
John Presnall really let us down. At the end of his great GATSBY post a few weeks ago, he indicated he was going to talk about MUD . I hadn’t heard of it, and the reference passed me by. John didn’t post any more on it, alas. And so now, a full month after its release, I just got around . . . . Continue Reading »
Should there be a law against the NSA doing what it recently was revealed (not really for the first time) to have been doing? I confess I have not yet been convinced by the case against the collection of heaps of telephone call records only to be sifted in restricted FISA situations; what . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t have time to discuss Yuval’s Bradley talk right now. Let me just say it’s a classy, forthright, and personal effort to strike the balance between gratitude and change we can believe in. Nothing’s more important than the perpetuation of our personal institutions . . . . Continue Reading »
ethical and political thoughts here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, maybe not lose, so much as lose by huge margins. I think that Republicans would have trouble winning a plurality of the youth vote even if they did everything right, but losing the youth vote by twenty-three points at a time of elevated youth unemployment is just brutal. The College . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s, of course, easy to find everywhere on the web a kind of sophisticated fascination with BIG DATA. The idea of BIG DATA has become allegedly DISRUPTIVE and TRANSFORMATIVE scientism. Again, I’m too lazy to link: But I’ve even read a little article suggesting that colleges use . . . . Continue Reading »
by having it address the serious issue . . . . Continue Reading »
So our threader with the erudite “pomoncon name” of Pseudoplotinus gives us a plausible intrpretation of recent events, scandals, and such: So here’s a take I haven’t heard yet. This scandal broke weeks after the President declared the War on Terror over. In other words we are . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t have time to do any linking, but just let me mention some issues that have arisen through my morning’s reading. The first is techno-surveillance and soft despotism—see Ross Douthat. It’s hard to know whether the main concern here is the government or the . . . . Continue Reading »
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