Joseph Lawler

What sort of a compromise on social issues should conservatives accept in order to cut spending? I suggested that Mitch…

David Brooks’s column this morning is a tribute to the limited-government philosophy behind the Obama administration’s “Race to the Top”…

TPM has created an index of the “Shadow Congress” of former congressmen who have cashed out of their elected offices…

An outstanding anecdote from the WSJ‘s David Wessel. At a Center for American Progress and Hamilton Project event today in…

In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard Joseph Bottum makes the case that the recent headlines involving the pope and sex…

Jeffrey: Without getting into the larger conservatives vs. conservatives argument, two points about your item on David Frum.  One is…

First they lose the family throne, then word gets out that Patches was doing vodka shots after giving a talk…

Today the New York Times has an interesting story on Jeffrey Anderson, the lawyer who is trying to sue the…

Menzie Chinn has provided a follow-up graph to the one that I mentioned on Friday in a post about the…

…Or at least in the minority of the mainstream. The Weekly Standard‘s Matthew Continetti flags this clip of Paul Ryan…