Joseph Lawler

In a speech yesterday, President Obama gave a nice nod to reality:  And we were guided by a simple idea:…

Everything is in its right place once again, with Jim Manzi, recently signed up to be The New Republic‘s “in-house…

Today the New York Times dutifully rolled out another front page story suggesting that Pope Benedict XVI was personally responsible for…

Reason‘s Nanny of the Month is Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights James Kirkpatrick, for outlawing Ladies’ Nights…

At 5 percent approval on the film review site Rotten Tomatoes, M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie The Last Airbender is in…

After Republicans shot down a provision that would pay for the costs of the financial regulation reform bill by nominally…

The AP’s story on housing prices is 180 degrees from where it needs to be:  The number of buyers who…

Apparently Jonathan Chait took a shot at Washington Examiner writer Tim Carney in the latest issue of The New Republic (it’s…

In yesterday’s WSJ, Andrew Manshel announced that the fixation with urban theorist Jane Jacobs has officially gone too far:  It has…

In today’s New York Times, Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson describe what they dug up in 250,000 pages of documents relating to…