Nate Cohn has some thoughts on Scott Walker that are pretty similar to mine. Cohn argues that Walker has a chance to be a unifying candidate. That’s true, but I also think Walker has a chance to be the Tea Party-friendly alterative to Chris Christie if Ted Cruz collapses and Rand Paul fails . . . . Continue Reading »
In an essay on university bureaucracy , Tim Parks quotes a length passage from Little Dorrit , where Dickens describes the work of the Office of Circumlocution: “The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government. No public . . . . Continue Reading »
I read and mostly enjoyed Scott Walker’s new campaign biography. It is pretty good by the low standards of the genre. Walker is pretty clearly getting ready to run for president. Like Allahpundit said, Walker has the potential to appeal to both the Republican establishment and conservatives . . . . Continue Reading »
Maciej Zieba’s PAPAL ECONOMICS: The Catholic Church on Democratic Capitalism, from Rerum Novarum to Caritas in Veritate is a careful, informative study of Catholic social teaching as embodied in papal encyclicals. Though the book does briefly trace the history of Papal statements on democracy . . . . Continue Reading »
Charles Krauthammer isn’t the only one who says the fiasco of Obamacare threatens liberal social policy. Franklin Foer thinks so too. In sounding the alarm in TNR , Foer gives this forthright precis of liberal faith in the transformative power of the state: “Back when Woodrow Wilson was . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m all for it. Given the recent polarization of the two parties, coherent policy can now only be made during rare moments of overwhelming control by one party. The rest of the time, policy either gets made by inertia (the expiration of the Bush tax cuts on the highest earners) or else you . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Stuttaford raises a good question. If you had to choose one, would you pick Toronto’s Rob Ford administration or New York City’s John Lindsay administration? . . . . Continue Reading »
Conn Carroll has some kind things to say about Mike Lee and I agree that Lee’s approach to policy is vastly better than that of the Republican establishment as seen in the Republican National Committee’s autopsy (basically counseling ”comprehensive immigration . . . . Continue Reading »
Shakespeare’s English tetrologies explore the demands and perils of political ceremony . . . . . Continue Reading »
Will it be single-payer? If conservatives don’t offer a viable alternative using incremental changes, single-payer is what we will (eventually) get. Yuval Levin and Ramesh Ponnuru point conservatives in the direction of the reforms we need. And from now a word . . . . Continue Reading »
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