J. P. Freire
I wrote about Renata Salecl’s ridiculous RSA Animate video claiming that we are less free when provided with options, but Lee Doren of the Competitive Enterprise Institute goes much further, creating a step-by-step takedown. Watch and enjoy:
While discussing the “new” fissures in the GOP over foreign policy (they’re not, especially on Iraq and Afghanistan, but hey! Whatever), Alex Roarty at National Journal offers this: But the shattering of that consensus isn’t revealing new divisions within the…
Video games are part of protected speech under the First Amendment according to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, but the best part is that it doesn’t seem to be drawing the same sort of criticism and hyperbole as…
Prof. Renata Salecl’s new book “Choice” has been sampled in a video, attemping to explain that the downside of freedom is that choice produces greater anxieties among the masses. This limits the happiness of the population: The problem is actually…
Jose Antonio Vargas’s article in the New York Times Magazine is a perfect, heart-rending story of the difficulties faced by illegal immigrants who strive to assimilate into the American dream — but it’s also a tale of the potential dangers…
You may wonder about the veracity of reporter’s truth-telling when he has to shield his own identity. Jack Shafer certainly does: But the fact that Vargas lied about his noncompliance with what I (and others) consider to be an unjust…
There’s only one redeeming thing about this video, and it’s the look on John Fund’s face as he walks past hyperbolic documentary filmmaker John Ziegler. Ziegler spends much of his time in this video chasing after the American Conservative Union’s…
I posted at the Examiner about the AmSpec newsmaker lunch today, but I question the wisdom of standing on the edge of Godwin’s law and repeatedly declaring Obama a socialist. What Obama is calling for is no different than what…
Commercials are really expensive. At least, that’s the understanding I’ve had as someone who does not buy commercials as a general rule. I also don’t have anything to commercialize about. I think I can ride my bicycle pretty fast, and…
I’ll be on MSNBC Live with David Shuster today at 11:10 (or sometime thereafter, given cable’s quirks). We’ll be discussing the Sotomayor nomination and whether she’s actually Hispanic, whether she’s actually qualified, and whether Antonin Scalia, somewhere back in the…
