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James Poulos

James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.
by | Jan 26, 2008

Obviously these numbers can’t hold, but this could be a blowout.

by | Jan 24, 2008

With all respect due, I surprise probably no one in resisting the confident clone-a-thon advocated on the front page by Gregory Conko. It’s not a health-and-safety issue, at least not from where my natural-born brain is marinating. It’s about power….

by | Jan 17, 2008

The two cents I always toss in at a time like this is this: ‘The South’ didn’t secede. Two waves of southern states did. The first wave left quite precipitously. The second wave — composed mostly of states that voted…

by | Jan 16, 2008

Yes, except does anyone really give a damn about Rudy Giuliani anymore? The great weakness in his wait-for-it strategy was that if all the other guys, by choice or necessity, wound up waiting for it too, his essential superfluity would…

by | Jan 16, 2008

It’s fair to ask: did Romney ever have a shot at winning SC?

by | Jan 11, 2008

Now it’s Paul’s time to school. There’s simply no ground for argument against his claim that the Republican party has deliberately and progressively abandoned its core policy commitments. As I’ve said elsewhere, the strength and vigor in Paul’s candidacy, disorganized…

by | Jan 11, 2008

McCain’s needless interjection about trading with al Qaeda and one-way tickets was bizarre and awkward. Thompson, who’s radiant tonight, has made no such errors.

by | Jan 11, 2008

Paul got schooled, more fairly than unfairly. He had the right answer to the wrong question. Romney’s assessment is not incorrect. But Rudy’s assessment, that speedboat brinkmanship means bomb Iran before they get a nuke, relies on poor logic. Lost…

by | Jan 11, 2008

Okay, so let me get this straight. Thompson has to instruct the Fox moderator team to let him actually participate substantively in the debate; Huckabee then has to instruct the Fox moderator team to let him actually respond substantively to…

by | Jan 9, 2008

So. If Hillary wins tonight [pause…swallowing more wine…], it’ll be impossible for her to dedicate the next fortnight to personally destroying Obama. She’ll have to play fair. And then she’s back to square one. Right? Edwards is totally young enough…

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