Author: James Poulos

By May 22,2008

Blurring the Battlefield

A while ago I went back and forth with John Schwenkler on torture. Our positions are pretty close together, but an element of the ‘torture problem’ we seem to be...

By May 21,2008

The Tragic Irony of Thomas Frank

Unaware of my existence and identity as Thomas Frank appears to be, how could he have known, before clicking SEND on his silly piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, that...

By May 21,2008

The Right's Hero Problem

By way of Jonathan Last’s and Victorino Matus’ commentaries on Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Sonny raises a pop culture problem with profound implications for right-leaning political philosophy: [Last] argued...

By May 21,2008

Does Bob Barr Need an Intervention?

Having recently cast aspersions on his attitude toward constitutional law, I now take up the challenge of defending Barr against John Tabin, who was at the Libertarian debate hosted by...

By May 20,2008

Buy The Book

Philip Rieff is the greatest social thinker you’ve never heard of. The second volume of his posthumous and mindbending three-volume opus, Sacred Order/Social Order, has hit shelves (there is a...

By May 19,2008

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Bad Night

Ross writes: there are times when quietism is the better part of valor, and times when revolutions are necessary things. And given my own declinist instincts, I can easily imagine...