James Poulos, in conjunction with PJTV, has asked me to be a regular panelist on his internet-talk show, Reform school. In this week’s episode, we discuss whether and how the war on terror . . . → Read More: The End of the War As We Know It
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I once had the privilege of hearing Max Boot explain to a conservative luncheon that America had to make a 50+ year commitment to staying in Iraq. A recent Yale graduate, who looked like a 14 year old, explained that nearly everyone in the room would be dead by then, and he would be in his . . . → Read More: No Reason to Leave Now In the New York Times, Francis Fukuyama has a wonderful review of the reissued Constitution of Liberty by F.Z. Hayek in In the end, there is a deep contradiction in Hayek’s thought. His great insight is that individual human beings muddle along, making progress by planning, experimenting, trying, failing and trying again. They never have as much . . . → Read More: The Slick To Serfdom It’s one thing to persuade your president to embark on a ruinous and stupid war in Libya. It’s another to brag about. From a New York Times profile of Tina Brown, a detail about Bernard-Henri Levy: As her guests said goodbye, Brown and Evans looked eager to get their furniture back. Suddenly the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy . . . → Read More: BHL in Hell
More is revealed about Tim Pawlenty in this clip than in watching the entire deebate. “What did you think of the funeral?” Hannity asks, late in the clip. He got full Islamic ceremony, according to the host. Is that appropriate? Pawlenty went on to try to distinguish Bin Laden from a “regular army”, in what I thought would . . . → Read More: Bin Laden’s Funeral and Our Decency In case you didn’t know, the South Carolina GOP in partnership with FoxNews, held the first presidential primary debate. The participants included former-Pennsylvania-Senator Rick Santorum, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Tea-Party-Activist Herman Cain, Congressman Ron Paul, and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. The first thing I noticed was that Ron Paul was sharper than he had . . . → Read More: The South Carolina Debate Niall Ferguson warns that inflation is back in Newsweek. There are plenty on right and left that have been warning that we are still in a period of deflation. Just look at housing prices! Indeed, home sales are slowing as more people become renters permanently, and the housing stimulus measures run dry. Home prices are still . . . → Read More: Inflation sp!ked review of books has an excellent essay by Daniel Ben-Ami taking on David Harvey’s critique of “neo-liberalism”, The Enigma of Capital. Here is just a small sample: In effect, Harvey has turned Marx into a green and has transformed left into right. Whereas socialist movements used to campaign for popular prosperity – higher working-class living standards . . . → Read More: The New Malthusians WWDMedia has six photo editors examine the now famous situation room photograph. I found myself agreeing with Scott Dadich of Wired magazine, And the woman peeking over the guy’s shoulder? That’s to me the power of the moment. The cramming in. I don’t know who she is. But when you have the nexus of power in the Western . . . → Read More: The Photograph (via my friend Ray Lehman) comes a heartwarming story from the heartland itself. The lede: A West Virginia man found wearing women’s underwear and standing over a goat’s carcass told police he was high on . . . → Read More: To the Place I Belong The Washington Post doesn’t know who actually pulled the trigger on Bin Laden, but that doesn’t stop them from priming you with a fantasy about him anyway. He’ll be ripped,” says the author of the best-selling autobiography “ Rogue Warrior .” “He’s got a lot of upper-body strength. Long arms. Thin waist. Flat tummy.” Remember sugar kills you. . . . → Read More: He Smells Like Gasoline and Victory Too The New York Times magazine’s blog, shows the process they went through before settling on their last cover design. The ink-dropper was a stroke . . . → Read More: Cover Design |
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