By • Jun 22,2010

If You Cannot Handle The Heat…

Budget Director Peter Orszag has announced that he will be the first senior member of the Obama administration to step down this July. According to Reuters, Orszag never intended to...

By • Jun 21,2010

The Vast Right-Wing Filmography

In the Mises blog, Mateusz Machaj speculated that the “A” in “A-Team Stands for Anarcho-Capitalism” and I think he’s onto something. The “A-team is an illegal, anti-government, underground organization of...

By • Jun 15,2010

Red Dawn backlash

Well-meaning people are concerned that the Red Dawn remake will just stir up xenophobic anti-China sentiment. Evan Osnos in the New Yorker: The new movie will feature Connor Cruise, the...

By • Jun 15,2010

Honesty

Steven Hayward: This article needs to begin with a big mea culpa. In the April 26 edition of The Weekly Standard (which went to press on April 16), I wrote:...

By • Jun 15,2010

Bad news from Afghanistan

On several fronts, but it all comes back to Karzai. Jackson Diehl writes that in Kandahar, the US military: …has stepped back from an initial push to challenge the entrenched...

By • Jun 11,2010

The 1980s rise from the grave

The new A-Team movie better not disappoint me. You can’t invoke childhood nostalgia and then tear it to bits. When I was in second grade, my entire family dressed up...