Henry Farrell notes a contradiction in Brooks's embarrassingly belated realization that George W. Bush is not, in fact, a Burke/Oakeshott conservative. My favorite example from the Brooks archives, however, has to be this one:Because of that legacy, we stink at social engineering. Our government couldn't even...
George M. Steinbrenner is principal owner of the New York Yankees. It's not just the announcers who can see only one possible explanation for Greatest Pitcher In Known Human History.
Via Yglesias, a fun and interesting Sunday morning diversion: check out this website that uses census data to give you the demographic of your ZIP code. Especially interesting for you.
As you may have heard, Christopher Hitchens wrote an article in Vanity Fair this week ruminating on the fact that a young man, recently killed in Iraq, may have taken one of Hitchens columns as inspiration for joining the US Army. Hitchens response to this event...
I have mixed feelings regarding the ignominious participation of the Cubs in this year's playoffs. I'm happy to see them lose, and glad that the defeat came in the form.
After reading the piece about Fort Hunt in today's WaPo, I'm going to propose a new rule for wingnuts: All efforts to recruit the historical legacy of the "greatest generation".
It's not wise to attribute too much wisdom to the "wisdom of the crowds", such that it is, but I'm nevertheless struck by just how dominant Hillary Clinton is in the presidential betting markets. She's currently priced at $41.20 (for a $100 return), while the next...
I missed much of today's rare instance of justice on Earth at various parental visitation and birthday party related programed activities. But I left dinner to hear descriptions of the.
...that the quality and quantity of healthcare is vastly different depending on where you live, what your racial and ethnic background is, and how much money you have. And the.
One of my favorite sections of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class dwells on the "pecuniary reputation" of certain varieties of domesticated animals. In short, Veblen argues that while they invest considerable effort cultivating the aesthetically worthy -- which is to say practically worthless --...
The major Republican candidates have all endorsed Bush's appalling veto of S-CHIP. If the Democratic candidate can't repeatedly hammer his or her opponent throughout the campaign for this, they don't.
I certainly agree with Yglesias that "It would be a big, big problem for Giuliani's general election campaign to have any of the major cultural conservative institutions backing a third.