The Future of Liberalism By Alan Wolfe (Alfred A. Knopf, 335 Pages, $26.95) Alan Wolfe writes poorly about conservatism. The most he can recommend for it is that conservatives admit “the inevitable fact of the state’s existence in modern society”…
Americans have busied themselves lately showing how little a decline in the vice of materialism begets a rise in virtue. Conservatives rediscovered economic austerity amid a fresh embarrassment of histrionic riches. Moderates awoke to the petty opportunism behind Obama’s grand…
Ain’t there a woman I can sock on the jaw? — David Bowie, “Young Americans” Last week, America greeted the news that hip-pop princess Rihanna was headed for reconciliation with boyfriend Chris Brown. This was the same Chris Brown, for those…
The body, as well as the head, was fearfully mutilated—the former so much so as scarcely to retain any semblance of humanity. — The Murders in the Rue Morgue Last week, American went ape. It was an ugly display. The sound…
At Pomocon, Demophilus has more. Tyler Cowen has yet more. Lesbian love here.
Put Phil and Jim’s critiques together and what do you get? A broad yet extraordinarily fragile coalition of Obama voters — all of whom want at least one kind of substantive, even sweeping change in policy, and all of whom…
Apropos of this emergency fourth-rate version of the Contract with America — a Contract with Congress? ugh — Daniel Larison and I join in solidarity with the general irritation expressed by Jim, Paul, and others over Newt’s never-fulfilled promise.
If you want Hillary Clinton to stay in the competition, you must vote — to borrow a phrase from Ryan Seacrest. Trouble is, she can only muster enough votes to linger in the competition, not to win it. For a…
Jim’s right. Resisting a semiviolent urge to quote Hall and Oates, I’ll add that the big question as far as I’m concerned was thrown into fairly stark relief by Jeb Hensarling at the latest AmSpec Newsmaker Breakfast, who more or…
