By • 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 • 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 • 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...

By • Jun 19,2008

Superpot

Andrew’s a little naive about it, methinks: The drug czar would have you believe it’s 30 8 times the strength of the 1970s. No one doubts that pot is now...

By • Jun 19,2008

How Bazaar

By way of playing catch-up on the Kerry/Will/Megan Natalism Debate, I’ll begin with this fundamental McArdlean insight: Food is awesome, but it is culturally trivial. Think for a moment —...

By • Jun 19,2008

Fear Not, Chuckolytes!

If the protracted Democratic primary process was good for anyone besides John McCain, it was good for NBC Political Director Chuck Todd. His understanding of the intricate calculus of Democratic...