Author: James Poulos

By Jun 14,2008

Control for Freaks

Apropos of, more or less, liberaltarianism, Reihan is anecdotally impressed with the particular facts of the individual stories I kept coaxing out of people, and by how values informed life...

By Jun 12,2008

O Guantanamo

Snap judgment on the court´s ruling: this is the graf that counts: A second fact insufficiently appreciated by the dissents is the length of the disputed imprisonments, some of the...

By Jun 12,2008

McEmpire

McCain would love to see US troops stationed peacefully in Iraq for the foreseeable future. To him it does not matter when they come home. What matters is that the...

By Jun 09,2008

Pantheism and Suffering

Ross, talking about those crazy Singularitarians, channels a little Tocqueville: the mere fact that the Singularity is inherently “escapist,” and bears a not-inconsiderable resemblance to Christianity, isn’t a problem with...

By Jun 09,2008

Solvency, Citizenship, Subsidiarity

What could such a snappy slogan refer to? Why, John McCain´s campaign strategy, of course! My wild and crazy thoughts are up now at The Guardian. Pull quote: The Republican...