The Other McCain

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

When the Good Guys Win

FEEL-GOOD STORY OF THE YEAR! pjmedia.com/instapundit/16… — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) January 20, 2013 “She was very brave, she stayed on the phone with the dispatcher the whole time — talked all the way through it and was still on the phone with dispatch when we got into the house.” — Ken Golden, Bryan County […]

The Choices We Actually Have

Reading the liberal Gin and Tacos blog yesterday — “It’s Not Like Intellectuals Hating Their Stupid Parents Is a Cliché or Anything” — I came across what the pseudonymous assistant professor of political science offered as a statement of his philosophy, a rant against libertarianism. That rant by “Ed” was inspired by an 2008 airline trip […]

It’s Not Like Intellectuals Hating Their Stupid Parents Is a Cliché or Anything

Being clever and funny about the stupidity of one’s elders is one of the more vicious habits of youthful ingrates, and it’s generally impossible to appreciate one’s elders until you are yourself compelled to cope with the burden of responsibility and authority. Even then, some people are so smugly satisfied with their own superiority that they can’t […]

Marxism by Any Other Name

Betty Friedan (left) leads a 1971 protest for the Equal Rights Amendment “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” — Ronald Reagan, 1987 Understanding feminism requires a critical study of the movement’s history that […]

Notes on Hip: Hanson as Sontag

Susan Sontag circa 1965 In 1964, Susan Sontag published a 6,000-word essay in Partisan Review called “Notes on ‘Camp,’” which described a hitherto little-noted phenomenon: A sensibility emerging from the gay subculture and just then beginning to diffuse itself through the world of art and theater. Sontag was a prodigy: She graduated high school at 15, […]

The Obama Age: ‘That ’70s Show’

In last night’s traditional Christmas round-up — genius! — I began by quoting Rob Long’s doom-and-gloom comments from a New York magazine feature about the post-election National Review Caribbean cruise, an article you should read in its entirety, if you want to be thoroughly depressed about the uselessness of our conservative elite: Wonks, pundits, pollsters […]

Why Liberals Hate You

Rare is the day when I have cause to express gratitude to Matt Yglesias, but his expression of the statist view could not be clearer:   The concept of “redistribution” falsely implies that the existence of property is prior to the existence of the state. #mythofownership — Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 18, 2012   Could […]

This Might Be What You’d Call ‘Relevant’

Remember how Liz McMillen threw Naomi Schaefer Riley to the wolves over accusations of racism? Headline at American Power: Naomi Schaefer Riley Is Married to the Wall Street Journal‘s Jason Riley, Who is Black Routine conversation at the Riley household, as imagined by typical readers of the Chronicle of Higher Education: Naomi: Honey, will you […]

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