By Mar 12,2009

The Weakness of Genre

“??? ???????” asked Lenin in 1901. Ever since then, learned men have felt compelled to end all descriptive essays with an attempt to outline a way forward. Sometimes, these men...

By Mar 12,2009

Two for the price of one

People never ask me why I’m an Anglophile, but if they did, I’d probably point them to this: I’m also a fan of the Magna Carta and the metaphysical poets.

By Mar 12,2009

The Prop. 8 Blacklist, cont.

From the Weekly Standard: Until now, donating to a cause did not open private citizens to a battery of invective and jackboot tactics. While celebrities sport their moral vanity with...

By Mar 12,2009

He’s goin’ hungry

I’ve always found Daniel Larison’s ability to toss off elaborate yet concisely-argued blog posts in the time it takes me to pee a bit daunting. Where most bloggers draft sentence...

By Mar 11,2009

Jacobs on Freeman

I think Alan Jacobs gets at the heart of the Chas Freeman question in a characteristically smart post over at the Scene: 2) Freeman and his supporters insist that in...