Month: November 2018
Bret Stephens, Nov. 8 “The Midterm Results Are a Warning to the Democrats” For months we’ve heard from sundry media apocalypticians that this year’s midterms were the last exit off the
The myth endures: In a valedictory interview with the Washington Post, House Speaker Paul Ryan depicted himself, and was in turn depicted by his hosts, as he has always chosen to be seen: a wonk-state
Facebook’s attempt to use SOROS as a diversion from its massive screwups in 2016 came from the top: Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook’s communications staff to research George Soros’s financial
Some good points about the Cohen plea from Ken White: The first was that Cohen walked into a Manhattan federal courtroom unannounced. He did it by surprise. We live in a political environment characte
Looks like a lot of dominoes are falling all of a sudden: President Donald Trump spoke with Michael Cohen more extensively about the proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow than Cohen previously told C
Some links for your reading pleasure: Dmitry Gorenburg and Michael Kofman on the Battle of Kerch Straits Nationalism and the Left, by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian. More complicated than this, I think, but
This is the grave of Gore Vidal. Eugene Louis Vidal was born in 1925 in West Point, New York. Known as Gore, after his grandfather Thomas Gore, former senator from Oklahoma, his father was the first a
Great piece by Molly Jong-Fast: A federal judge last week struck down a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Even supporters of abortion rights may wonder why a woman would ne
- A cure for Barnum-Mencken Syndrome
- The Financial War V: That’s a Wrap
- Barnum-Mencken Syndrome
- Triggered snowflake shuts down space because his ego isn’t safe there
- Politicizing Vaccines
- Did COP27 Accomplish Anything?
- Hoist on an orange petard
- Bowl Mania
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,257
- Vox populi, Vox dei