(This article originally appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of Doublethink.) Conservatives in 2008 are stuck in a monumental funk. Worries about conservatism’s lack of fresh ideas are nothing new,...
It’s a fun guessing game, figuring out exactly what constitutes torture these days. I’m actually relatively sympathetic to John Schwenkler’s point that you don’t need to make prisoners uncomfortable when...
I’ve been following, with some amusement, the travails of Tropic Thunder and that movie’s interaction with the grievance industry. For a (ridiculously over the top) summary, check out AICN. Money...
It’s Dan McCarthy by a mile, name checking Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys, Telos, and George Will in a twisted appreciation of once — and Future? — Governor Jerry Brown. In...
If you had told me at the start of summer that Georgia would be a bigger wedge issue in this election than Iraq, I would have given you some spare...
Mysteriously, The Plank, and all of The New Republic, seems to be completely mute on an issue which I would’ve expected to hear a lot about from them — the...
