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Peter and I recorded a Bloggingheads episode today — I’ll post when it goes live — but meanwhile there are a bunch of good diavlogs up on that site: a fascinating discussion about memory in a digital age ; Andrew Bacevich and David Frum grappling with the best response to a ...
Congress
Peter DeFazio
David Frum
I’ve had mixed feelings about Pajamas TV since it began. Roger Simon is a real talent, Andrew Klavan often has intelligent points to make, and Glenn Reynolds, a pioneer of the blogosphere, alerts me to a good link I wouldn’t have otherwise seen almost every time that I read his ...
World
My friend Matt Continetti — one of the smartest journalists I know — has written a smart and thoughtful comment for the Wall Street Journal on the long, difficult road ahead for Sarah Palin if she intends to become a serious presidential contender. Though I don’t agree with ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Matt Drudge
My quick take on 2012 is up at Reason . Here’s a sample:
Not content merely to be another Big, Dumb Blockbuster, it aims for something greater: to be the Biggest, the Dumbest, the Blockbusteriest.
And with its never-ending parade of glorious, ludicrous, and utterly ...
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1) Math is hard when you learn it inside the American educational system.
2) Interesting stuff from Tim Lee about large organizations . And he is right about exhausted doctors!
3) You’ve probably been underestimating pottery :
In the usual experience of archeologists, ...
World
John Hawkins and I just finished Round 2 of our debate. His remarks are here . Mine are here . Please do check them out.
We’re due to go one last round, an opportunity to quickly address outstanding disagreements and write up our conclusions. Prior to penning that entry, I’d ...
White House
— Ann Friedman on health care and abortion (see especially her last paragraph, which points out an error in my analysis), disagreeing with my post yesterday, and presumably some of what William Saletan says .
— Imogen Heap does Thriller.
— When disgruntled newspaper ...
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What I’d love is if I posted these absurd lyrics on the Internet, and someone composed some accompanying music. Naturally we’d split the vast royalties sure to result.
When I was young, before my West was won
I didn’t like whiskey or gin.
Out on the town, when my friends ...
Other
As that rare beast, a French free marketer, I have been looking at the healthcare debate in the US with mixed emotions. Sometimes bemused detachment. Sometimes anxiety, as I know how much European healthcare depends on American innovations.
As the debate has unfolded, I have been thinking ...
World
In the fall of 1989, I was taking a course called “Comparative Socialist Politics” which dealt with the differences in political structure and political history among the various Communist countries, with a particular focus (as I recall) on Poland, Hungary and Yugoslavia. (We did ...
World
Poland
Hungary
Soviet Union
The decision by the Court of Appeal in this case was wrong on its face. The student would face no obstacle to admission if her mother had undergone an orthodox rather than a progressive conversion. That’s not discrimination based on ethnicity but on religious practice. The chief executive ...
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You may (or may not) have noticed my almost total lack of blogging over the past few months. I have been devoting all of my time available for writing to my book.
I did, however, do a bloggingheads discussion over the weekend with David Orr, an academic who has written a very hard eco-left ...
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1) My letter to Jonah Goldberg is as yet unanswered. Should that change, I hope the response reflects his genuinely held convictions, rather than his efforts to “ do his part “ in the spin wars.
2) Johann Hari’s Slate piece on Ayn Rand is just the latest example of a ...
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I’ve finished up 1919, and started on The Big Money.
Anyone who abandoned the project before the end of 1919, go grab your copy, skip to the end of the book, and read “The Body of an American” chapter. It stands alone as a prose poem, a sort of “I Hear America ...
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The excellent blogger Rod Dreher writes :
I understand the case for same-sex marriage, though I don’t agree with it, but look, if you’re reduced to having to tell the public that they have no right to be consulted about the radical redefinition of a bedrock social and cultural ...
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1) I knew I’d like that guy who threw punches in the Washington Post newsroom! (Also, if you’ve never read Gene Weingarten before, marvel at this .
2) I’ve written an open letter to Jonah Goldberg .
3) Reihan deserves better than to be juxtaposed next to nonsensical ...
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Washington Post
It sounds like an Orthodox Jewish bulletin board , but it’s actually David Frum’s rebranded blog . Too bad Frum Youth and Frum Teens are already taken; there’s nowhere for the next generation of “Frum conservatives” to go. But maybe giving up on New Majority means ...
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David Frum
It’s difficult to describe just how terrible and uninspired the new Weezer record is, but I give it a shot in today’s Washington Times .
