F.H. Buckley
If there’s one thing the left cannot tolerate, it’s self-doubt. Progressives revel in their sanctimony, and no one does it better than the WaPo‘s David Ignatius, who parades his sycophancy for Obama with a convert’s zeal. Was the Second Inaugural…
People sometimes refer to the arcana of DC as “inside Baseball.” If so, the battle over U. Va. and its board is Inside Little League. Briefly, the governor-appointed board fired the university’s president, Teresa Sullivan, last summer, then quickly reinstated…
I last saw Jim Buchanan three months ago, at a Liberty Fund conference held to celebrate The Calculus of Consent, which he had written with Gordon Tullock 50 years earlier. The participants were mostly Jim’s former students, now getting on…
At lunch with friends we talked of Patti Page, whose obit in the NY Times dripped with sarcasm. So much for nil nisi. I argued that the ’50s were hipper than the ’80s, that Mitt Romney’s playlist was cooler than…
Do you remember the line about how all clever economists were tall, with the exceptions of Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith? Clever or not, the 6’8″ Galbraith was one of the wittiest of economists, and under a pseudonym once…
The good people at Donors Trust tell me that the Fiscal Cliff bill will not seriously affect a taxpayer’s ability to deduct charitable gifts. I wish I could explain this better, but there was a reason I never became a…
The snow which lightly fell over Northern Virginia has now melted and waltered the hungry soil. Meanwhile a heavy snowstorm blankets Maryland. It is often like this. A severe storm north of the Potomac is but a breeze to the…
For a month I’ve been telling people not to expect a deal over the Fiscal Cliff. A grandiose president like Obama can’t tolerate oppositon, but it’s more than that. If he cuts a deal he takes part ownership of the…
Shoppers were having lunch at a mall in Welland, Ontario, when…
There’s been a lot of talk about the fiscal cliff, but in all of this we’ve missed the real issue. It’s not about a new recession or even about greenheads. The real issue is Obama, argues Obama. What it’s all…
