Author: James Poulos
By James Poulos • Jun 23,2008

Bye George

Probably the most telling (if only the second or third saddest) aspect of the AP’s eulogy for bearded bawd George Carlin is this one: The actor Ben Stiller called Carlin...

By James Poulos • Jun 22,2008

The Power of And

Like Daniel, I happily pondered Reihan’s Spectator prophesy of a yupster Return to the Blue Lagoon of Hippiedom. And the result of that pondering centered around the following two sentences:...

By James Poulos • Jun 22,2008

Semi Life

At Slate, Paul Collins asks if modern life has killed the semicolon: The semicolon has spent the last century as a fussbudget mark. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell disdained it;...

By James Poulos • Jun 20,2008

The Fate of Federalism

Daniel thinks small-country regionalism is no laughing matter, whereas large-country republicanism may still be impossible to take seriously: In the end, the federal republic was consolidated because it came to...

By James Poulos • Jun 19,2008

Whose Pax? Which Americana?

Ross’s back and forth with Dan McCarthy and Daniel Larison (see also Matt Yglesias and MB Dougherty) merits a nice long read. As a casual fan of direly necessary and...