Author: David Polansky

By David Polansky • Mar 05,2009

Pour some industry on me

So now Ms. McCardle , Mr. Douthat , and our own Sonny have expressed highly qualified praise of Ayn Rand, rightly noting her tendency toward tendentious prose. Curiously, however, no...

By David Polansky • Mar 04,2009

Chutzpah

The old definition is the parricide throwing himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. The new definition is the Weekly Standard publishing a cover article with Alexis...

By David Polansky • Mar 02,2009

Steele vs. Limbaugh

NPR calls the Steele-Limbaugh tiff a battle for the future of the Republican party . In which case, I’m reminded of Henry Kissinger’s line on the Iran-Iraq war: Too bad...