Author: David Polansky

By 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 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 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...