Interesting and smart column by Kyle Smith over at the NY Post: Twenty percent of Americans say the U.S. economy is doing well. That’s hearsay. Seventy-one percent say they, personally,...
At this point in the summer I’m basically in Batman-blackout mode. I’m not reading any of the reviews; I’m not clicking on any of the links to the viral games;...
Peter Beinart, he of the heavy-duty Time topic of Patriotism With America At A (Nother) Crossroads, wants to be an equal-opportunity chastiser. What could be more bipartisan and transcendent? But...
Rod Dreher will just lurv this one. In a general sign of the horribleness of Time magazine and the culture at large, the hot new story is the mainstreaming of...
Amateurism is not ignorance. And politics is not life. But consider Matt Yglesias: I’m a very “bad” tourist in terms of looking things up in advance and planning. But I...
I have a lot of problems with statistical analysis. Most of my complaints go straight to the heart of the use of large-n studies of groups — irritating quant people,...
