Hunter Baker
I have been part of an email correspondence group for a couple of years now which includes a number of strong public policy thinkers. One of the best is a man named Francis Cianfrocca (aka “Blackhedd”) who writes regularly at…
Hugh Hewitt had Mike Huckabee on his show yesterday. I missed it, but read the transcript and found this gem: HH: Governor, here’s a contradiction in the book, and I read it very closely. On some places like Page 70,…
Fighting Words: A Tale of How Liberals Created Neo-Conservatism By Ben J. Wattenberg (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press, 362 pages, $26.95) The year was 1966. Lyndon Baines Johnson presided over a gloomy post-Camelot America. His whiz kid special assistant and Time…
I wrote a piece for the Acton Institute’s Religion & Liberty on the question of whether the old Reagan coalition has a future. Check it out here. Here’s a big teaser: As the standard bearer for American conservatism for two…
John, I think your points are good. There is no question that the laptop is superior to the pen and paper for notetaking. I type much faster than I write and would rather take notes on a laptop. But, with…
I teach political science courses at Houston Baptist University in addition to my work as an administrator for the school. I also occasionally speak to young people in other venues. Something that I see now, which was nearly non-existent when…
I’d like to hear from TAS auto columnist Eric Peters about this, but I don’t really understand why Ford seems to be losing money every bit as rapidly as GM. I’ve driven a few different models from each automaker during…
Back when I was a student of political science, we spent a lot of time discussing the bell curve theory of American politics. The idea was simple. Americans are supposedly arrayed along an ideological spectrum. The vast majority of voters…
Barack Obama is going to be our next president. It is now time to pray for better outcomes and better policies than many of us expect. The best hope is that he will heed the general movement of the past…
In response to my earlier comments on how a conservative with the kind of dodgy associations Obama has would be treated, TAS reader Craig Smith submitted the following useful analysis: CNN reported in late Feb 2000 that, “The members of…
