By • Aug 12,2008

Virgin Mobile Festival, 2008

Full coverage of the Virgin Mobile Festival from your humble correspondent, now available for your consumption from The Washington Times‘s website. Here’s day one’s coverage. I, um, can’t find day...

By • Aug 12,2008

The Wonks of Sam’s Club

(This article originally appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of Doublethink.) Conservatives in 2008 are stuck in a monumental funk. Worries about conservatism’s lack of fresh ideas are nothing new,...

By • Aug 11,2008

Torture or not torture?

It’s a fun guessing game, figuring out exactly what constitutes torture these days. I’m actually relatively sympathetic to John Schwenkler’s point that you don’t need to make prisoners uncomfortable when...

By • Aug 11,2008

Best Post of the Day

It’s Dan McCarthy by a mile, name checking Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys, Telos, and George Will in a twisted appreciation of once — and Future? — Governor Jerry Brown. In...

By • Aug 10,2008

August Surprise?

If you had told me at the start of summer that Georgia would be a bigger wedge issue in this election than Iraq, I would have given you some spare...