The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Did I Mention That My Daughter Has Made Dean’s List Every Semester?

Fortunately, because I’m not rich, there was never any danger that my daughter would darken the door of Ross Douthat’s alma mater: “Last year, two Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, published a book-length study of admissions and affirmative action at eight highly selective colleges and universities. Unsurprisingly, they found that the admissions process seemed […]

Jews and Israel: Death by Relativism

Frank Luntz quoted by Evelyn Gordon at Commentary: “The problem that I see is that so many parents in the Jewish community taught their kids not to judge. I’m going to say something that’s a little bit ideological, but I find that kids on the right are far more likely to stand up for Israel […]

Worst Side Effect of Recession? Endless Plague of Perpetual Grad Students

OK, this is a pet peeve of mine from way back. When I was in college in the late ’70s and early ’80s, there was a distinct group of hippie leftovers who hung around the campus pub a lot while, supposedly, working on their master’s degrees. They didn’t seem particularly smart or studious. Rather, they struck me as having fallen in love with the […]

D Is for ‘Dumb’ and ‘Detroit’

“Otis Mathis was a D-student in high school, went to Wayne State University in a program for the academically unqualified, sued for his degree because he couldn’t pass a basic English test, became a community organizer, and eventually was unanimously elected President of the School Board . . .”

The University of Instapundit

Reflecting on grade inflation at law schools, Fisherville Mike reckons that he should qualify for a juris doctor through daily reading of Professor Glenn Reynolds. And when your blog gets linked at Instapundit, that’s like becoming editor of the university law review.

Apology to a Princetonian

In punk-smacking young Isia Jasiewicz the other day, I evidently touched the pride of one of Jasiewicz’s fellow Princeton alumni. Ben has expressed his embarassment on his own blog, and in a comment at my post: It’s pretty clear that the kid meant just to sneer at Beck — problem for her is that she […]

Glenn Beck Goes Hayekian

When I laid down to go to bed in the wee hours this morning, I flipped on Fox News and caught the re-run of Glenn Beck. He was talking about Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, and The Other Glenn informs us that the book is now No. 1 at Amazon. It’s unfortunate, really, that […]

Buckleyesque
Notes on a Rhetorical Method

“Philip’s perspective typifies the tautological nature of intellectual consensus . . .” — God and Man at The American Spectator While I was proofreading that little essay just now, Mrs. Other McCain asked me, “What are you grinning at?” She knows me too well, and recognized the mischievous smile of a man who is up to […]

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