Romney campaign honcho Stuart Stevens is getting some mockery for his assertion that lots of people thought that Romney was a Catholic against contraception at the end of the primary season. To the extent that Stevens is blaming any part of Romney’s loss on the public’s mistaking Romney . . . . Continue Reading »
Friend of Postmodern Conservative Ken Masugi writes over at the Liberty Law blog that the biggest problem of the IRS scandal is not corruption within the Obama administration as such, or even problematic management by Obama and his political appointees. The problem is that elements of . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m writing a long article on this topic. And I’m going share parts of it with you two paragraphs at a time. It would be more interesting to talk about the president losing control of his own spins in ways that reveal (as Carl is more insistent that I am) his deep inauthenticity or lack . . . . Continue Reading »
Glenn Kessler’s The Fact Checker column at The Washington Post awards our President four pinocchios for his statement yesterday that, “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” This misrepresented his deliberate refusal to call the Benghazi . . . . Continue Reading »
And he got what was REALLY PROVOCATIVE —our Democrats are less progressive than conservative—without disagreeing with it. . . . . Continue Reading »
So there have been a lot of great posts by Pete, Carl, Ralph, Kate, and John in my (fairly brief) absence. I especially appreciate Carl reminding us of the fine book by our friend Philippe Beneton (a very melodious name, sing it to the tune of “Felice Navidad”) that Ralph expertly . . . . Continue Reading »
If you care for this kind of warning, then let me say that there are probably SPOILERS throughout the following: 1. The Great Gatsby (Dir. Baz Luhrmann, 2013). Nietzsche (there I said it!) says, “What is most difficult to render from one language to another is the tempo of its style.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Naturally I appreciate the kind and intelligent attention to my ideas from Peter Lawler, Richard Reinsch , and Carl Scott. (I would not be dismayed in the unlikely event that the term “Ralphism” caught on, though I might have suggested a term more along the lines of “the . . . . Continue Reading »
I also appreciate Richard Reinsch’s introduction to Ralph Hancock’s excellent book The Responsibility of Reason , which Peter links below, but it seemed a little odd to me to use Rawls’s concept of “public reason” as the key example of the sort of reason-reliance that Ralph . . . . Continue Reading »
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