I’m not the sort that reads Powerline with any regularity, but this caught my attention: It’s great to see someone standing up for colonialism, especially British colonialism. I agree wholeheartedly with this observation, for example: Had Britain had the courage to face down Gandhi and his rabble a few years longer, the tragedy that was […]
Matt continues to give Jonah Goldberg a well-deserved thrashing; Jonah should try, in the future, not to piss off those who are both smarter and better read than he. The Juan Cole experience should ha
Shorter Stanley Kurtz: “The fact that anti-feminist screeds that are given massive amounts of coverage in major media organs sell bubkes proves that feminism is only found among ‘elites
I had particular reason to be grateful this Mother’s Day, as for my birthday my parents bought me a ninth-row center seat to the Broadway revival of that heartwarming pean to maternal values and the ties that bind mothers and their children: Glengarry Glen Ross. About the play’s merits, I guess there’s not much point […]
The General offers a submission.
I rarely have much to say about discussions of “populism,” partly because it’s never entirely clear what the content of such a politics would look like, and the historical antecedent
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The Mock Turtle finds Professer InstaHack trying to spin the recent British elections as a political triumph for Blair’s support of the Iraq war, using his time-honored technique of printing ema
Social Security ain’t the only evil FDR brought to the world: Second-guessing Franklin D. Roosevelt,President Bush said Saturday the United States played a role in Europe’s painful divisio
Microsoft decides to back gay-rights bill Capping a two-week brouhaha over Microsoft’s fluid position on a state gay-rights bill, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer yesterday reversed course and said the company will support the legislation in the future. Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee and other supporters of the bill cheered the move. Kudos […]
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Lindsay offers what I think is one of the most pleasant surprises inherent to reading; addressing an argument I’ve long been wrestling with and articulating what I was grasping for far better th