1. Here is one reason I think the “You didn’t build that” issue is proving so hard to shake: It comes across like special pleading and it is demeaning to disfavored social groups. Obama describes the success of businessmen and women as a matter of luck (“a . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Knippenberg talks about the Chick-Fil-A boycott on another blog page at First Things, Playing Chicken with the First Amendment . Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s ringing endorsement of the traditional family has caused quite a stir. More than a few of my Gen X and Millennial former students . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl’s comments regarding Mary Eberstadt’s new book Adam and Eve After the Pill got me wondering. Was this book truly a game changer in the debate regarding the consequences of the sexual revolution (and “full modernity” as he puts it) or not? So I went out and bought the book . . . . Continue Reading »
First off, let me direct you to this Batman thread from the old No Left Turns site. Second, I saw The Dark Knight Rises and here are my thoughts below: There has been some discussion about whether The Dark Knight Rises is critique of Occupy Wall Street. The most obvious villain (though as it . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the ultimate highly literate American Exceptionalism blog, which is and is going to be a lot of help to anyone teaching American politics (including me). . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Isn’t the problem with the Penn State mega-penalty that the horribly monstrous violation didn’t involve any football players or Penn State students? 2. Is Crabby Ceaser walking backwards in the mode of his new favorite species toward Porcherism? 3. One reason I’ve haven’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam cites Luis Zingales’s suggestion that Romney run as a “pro-market populist.” Romney could run as a businessman for greater fairness and broadly rising living standards and against entrenched business interests that have allied with the . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is something for summer, which appears in this week’s Standard: In a mid-June ritual equivalent to a New Year’s resolution, I annually peruse THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s Summer Reading issue, listing the alluring books I promise to read while tucked away on some remote beach. There . . . . Continue Reading »
So right after mentioning her new book in the post below, I noticed that NRO has posted a fine interview with Mary Eberstadt , in which she implies that, just as the medical facts about cigarettes’ harm eventually came to be undeniable, so will the sociological facts about the sexual . . . . Continue Reading »
Terry Teachout says it wasn’t 1968 that began the big cultural shift, but 1962. ’62 is a good year to zero in on indeed—Cuban Missile Crisis, early SDS days, right before Philip Larkin’s beginning date for “sexual intercourse,” Dylan’s Freewheelin’ gestating . . . . Continue Reading »
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