Commentary - America's Future

By James Poulos • Jun 20,2008

To Reproduce Your Culture, Reproduce Yourself

Kerry Howley has come back with an outstanding post on the culture/birthrates/tradition meme flying around the intertubes. I know it is outstanding because I agree completely with over 90% of...

By James Poulos • Jun 20,2008

The Fate of Federalism

Daniel thinks small-country regionalism is no laughing matter, whereas large-country republicanism may still be impossible to take seriously: In the end, the federal republic was consolidated because it came to...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 19,2008

Boosh!

Things are getting way too serious around here, what with all the global warming talk. I’d like to get back to my roots, if I could, and offer Barack Obama...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 19,2008

Wouldn't it be nice …

James, I think, is both right and kind of naive when he writes this: [W]e badly need to restore Europe and Japan to security independence, and we need to continue...

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 19,2008

Food court diversity and white people

James raises the excellent point that big proponents of diversity resort or revert to culinary metaphors. The liberal utopia often appears to be the food court in the Beverly Center,...

By James Poulos • Jun 19,2008

Whose Pax? Which Americana?

Ross’s back and forth with Dan McCarthy and Daniel Larison (see also Matt Yglesias and MB Dougherty) merits a nice long read. As a casual fan of direly necessary and...