1. So some have asked: Where’s your incisive commentary on holiday movies? 2. Well, I saw LES MIZ: It’s an edifying tale of how personal transformation through faith and charity is real and how transformation through political revolution is a bloody illusion. 3. As a Tocquevillian, I . . . . Continue Reading »
Me? I’m swamped with sweaty efforts to simultaneously move to a new house and bang a new syllabus into shape. Posting will be rare for a while. But you? You should rush to your local movie theater this instant to catch the second and third parts of the NY Metropolitan Opera’s simulcast . . . . Continue Reading »
So Pat Deneen—on the distinguished ISI honors listserv thing—responded to my post below: Peter makes the very un-Tocquevillian point that the Republicans should ” work on the upside of devolving what entitlements there are to individuals.” I rather thought Yuval Levin made a . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I wish Pete could get before Republican leaders and yell at them about their rhetorical failings. They’re at least as clueless as he says. 2. Most people don’t care about the tax rate on the rich, because they assume they don’t really pay it. And usually they don’t. 3. . . . . Continue Reading »
It pleases me to speak to you all in the passive voice about Oaxaca. One wonders how much it is that the rules of grammar play with one’s moods. In Espanol, it’s all about “me gusta” instead of “I like” or even “I love.” There is “te amo,” but you . . . . Continue Reading »
Please be encouraged by the sensible words of Quin Hillyer : Overall, then, tax-rate policy isn’t optimal after the deal, but it’s not terrible either. It’s better, as already explained, than anything the Gingrich Congress achieved . . . . And whereas President Obama was able to . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Lawler very astutely described the problems of some of the self-employed. Some of those observations also apply to much of the working and middle-classes, and especially families with minor children. The problems of these groups are much more pressing (as a matter of both policy and politics) . . . . Continue Reading »
Due to Democratic malice and Republican stupidity (mainly the latter), a soft version of progressivism might again be ambiguously popular. But the progressive vision of bigger government remains unsustainable, because the tax increase is insignificant as a funding device: If even under the . . . . Continue Reading »
Statement from Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga): “This 11th-hour negotiation is no way to run a country, but I voted for this agreement because it protects 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase, permanently protects tens of thousands of farmers and family businesses from having to pay the . . . . Continue Reading »
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