The Quest for Responsible Neoconservatism
By • May 03,2008

The Quest for Responsible Neoconservatism

I’d like to endorse my American Scene colleague Noah Millman’s incisive comments on diplomacy and benign American power: our unipolar moment makes diplomacy look rather different than historical models. And...

By • May 02,2008

On Franken and Taxes

I have no real love for Al Franken–he’s annoying, an arch-liberal, and (mostly) unfunny–but I can’t really get up in arms over the fact that he got tripped up by...

By • May 02,2008

Iron Man as Political Rorschach

Iron Man hits wide release today, and my extended thoughts are over at the Standard‘s website. But I would like to expand on one of the points I raise in...

By • May 02,2008

Libertarianism and Moralism

With Will Wilkinson safely on the other side of the Earth, I am free to agree with him about something: It is tyrannical for parents to attempt to reproduce their...

By • May 02,2008

'Iron' Wrinkles

Ann Hornaday doesn’t really like Iron Man: Toggling between Stark’s impish goatee and Iron Man’s full-metal body condom, and amid so many generic fireballs, kill shots and earsplitting thumps, bumps...

By • May 01,2008

KG's no Zaza

My colleague Dean Barnett is a big Boston sports guy; needless to say he’s pretty excited about the Celtics. Nervous too. And I can’t say I blame him…on paper, the...