Author: James Poulos

By Aug 09,2008

Take That, Cheney

McCain couldn’t keep the veep away from the convention. But he can follow up Cheney’s speech to the assembled masses with the gong-ringing spectacle of Joe Lieberman, Vice Presidential nominee...

By Aug 08,2008

Pomobama?

Jonah Goldberg hurls the epithet. Daniel expects I would pull a Rorty, shrugging or laughing it off. Probably I will have a ton more to say about the whole sorry...

By Aug 07,2008

The Chinese Olympics

will go down in history as worse than Chinese Democracy. Sonny is right. Over eight-inch-tall glasses of gin and grapefruit, my knowledgeable friend Binky, who grew up in China, declared...

By Aug 07,2008

Error and Trial

At The Corner, Byron York is unable to understand how the left could possibly be serious about wanting to put Bush Administration officials in some kind of courtroom or hearing...

By Aug 07,2008

God Will Not Let The World Be Destroyed

Fear not the Large Hadron Collider. Megan McArdle reports: the production of a large number of Higgs particles in the future could have a backwards-in-time causal effect on the machine...

By Aug 06,2008

Sojourner Untruth? Obama, American

David Brooks seems to be making a curious, and curiously potent, argument about why Obama’s not possessed of a stronger lead — seeing as how he’s amply possessed of a...