Hunter Baker
Benjamin Zycher has been watching the battle brew between John Lott and Steven Levitt. He’s also been paying attention to Glenn Reynolds’ reporting of the issue. Follow this link to see what he has to say about it.
Sometimes, it’s good to write. At other times, it is good to merely repeat. I’ll repeat Solzhenitsyn speaking at Harvard in 1978 (he was booed if I recall correctly): However, the most cruel mistake occurred with the failure to understand…
The MSNBC debate last month took presidential debates to a place they’ve never been before when the Republican candidates were asked for a show of hands if they believed in evolution. Mike Huckabee did not raise his hand that evening…
Phil Klein is right that Thompson lacks executive experience, but what he has in spades is what George W. Bush lacks completely: communication skills. Had Clinton been Bush, he simply would not have survived. Whether one views the development as…
S.T. Karnick asked me to post this reply to John Tabin’s post regarding Karnick’s understanding of Mill and liberalism: Although his book On Liberty was indeed highly influential in forming the modern understanding of classical Whig liberalism, Mill frequently supported…
Wow, you’ve just got to read this.
There has been a great deal of speculation on the topic of who President Bush should appoint to replace Paul Wolfowitz as the head of the World Bank. Tony Blair’s name has come up frequently. One wonders whether political skills…
Jerry Falwell is dead. Conservative Protestants will need to draw straws to see who will take on the brunt of the hatred and contempt members of the fashionable class reserved primarily for the former head of the Moral Majority. As…
The real winners of tonight’s debate were the Fox News moderators. Hume, Wallace, and Goler came across as seasoned professionals asking interesting and sometimes hard-hitting questions. Far superior to the Matthews/Olbermann Kosfest.
John, when it comes to a person who has just died, I suspect the old Thumper rule should be firmly in effect. Ambiguity is allowable, but plain old critique doesn’t seem too kosher. It’s not like the guy was a…
