By May 21,2008

The Right's Hero Problem

By way of Jonathan Last’s and Victorino Matus’ commentaries on Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Sonny raises a pop culture problem with profound implications for right-leaning political philosophy: [Last] argued...

By May 21,2008

What’s Your Story? Andrew Rotherham

In 1999, Andrew Rotherham was hearing from more than a few people that his career was over. An education analyst at the Progressive Policy Institute, Rotherham had just authored a...

By May 21,2008

Does Bob Barr Need an Intervention?

Having recently cast aspersions on his attitude toward constitutional law, I now take up the challenge of defending Barr against John Tabin, who was at the Libertarian debate hosted by...

By May 20,2008

Bitter-Enders

This paragraph in Richard Cohen’s column today on why Hillary hasn’t dropped out puzzled me a little bit: In the end, no one begrudges a bitter-ender. Robert E. Lee is...

By May 20,2008

Buy The Book

Philip Rieff is the greatest social thinker you’ve never heard of. The second volume of his posthumous and mindbending three-volume opus, Sacred Order/Social Order, has hit shelves (there is a...

By May 20,2008

The Case for Empire, Redux

In the early days of The Weekly Standard online, Jonathan V. Last wrote a very controversial piece entitled The Case for Empire. In it, he argued that viewers were cheering...