Hunter Baker
Suitable for this blog because they come from the right side of the Tweet-O-sphere. Ladies and Gentlemen, the incomparable Joshua Trevino tweeting on the Star Trek reboot.
The year was 1988. Jack Kemp came to my hometown, Pensacola, Florida, where Navy pilots trained and the kids hung out at the beaches with the sugar white sand. A friend and I were hooked on the old Crossfire…
For the AmSpec readers in Houston, the time has come to issue judgment on the first hundred days of the Obama administration. Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, and Mike Gallagher are coming to the Dunham Theater of the Morris Cultural Arts…
I’m no objectivist and Ayn Rand’s anti-Christian sentiments actually offend me quite a bit, but if the deal goes through for the Randall Wallace-helmed and written Atlas Shrugged film treatment, then I’ll be there on opening day.
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century By George Friedman (Doubleday, 272 pages, $25.95) The problem with the news is that it instinctively shares John Maynard Keynes’ philosophy that “In the long run, we are all dead.”…
Last night I watched the latest episode of The Apprentice: Celebrity Edition. I have been pulled into the series this year largely because of the compelling finishes where The Donald lectures celebrities about their work habits and managerial ineptness. Dennis…
This year’s national meeting of the Philadelphia Society was my first. William Campbell of LSU invited me (a young-ish faculty member of Houston Baptist University) after reading a piece I wrote on libertarians and conservatives for the Acton Institute. I…
The Philadelphia Society’s New Orleans meeting has concluded. This was my first time to be invited. I have some impressions to report about both the society and the town. For this post, I’ll focus on New Orleans. If I can…
Okay, I have now had time to read an entire book on the Kindle. Excellent experience. What is really amazing is the content delivery aspect of it. I was going to deliver a lecture on technology and culture and wanted…
I recently got a copy of Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism by AmSpec’s publisher Al Regnery and went to work on it. First, if you are a conservative without much knowledge of the history of the movement, then you…
