By • Jun 14,2008

Pointless Occupations: No Biggie?

Daniel responds to my take on McEmpire: aside from being another occasion to say that popular opinion is no guide to making good policy I would add that the frequent...

By • Jun 14,2008

Control for Freaks

Apropos of, more or less, liberaltarianism, Reihan is anecdotally impressed with the particular facts of the individual stories I kept coaxing out of people, and by how values informed life...

By • Jun 13,2008

The Promotion

Of the five new movies I saw this week (War, Inc., The Happening, The Promotion, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, and Mongol), I can say without reservation that The Promotion...

By • Jun 13,2008

Who are we fighting?

Starting in 2002 during the war with Afghanistan, the United States began capturing large numbers of combatants on the battlefield. The State and Defense departments were unsure what to do...

By • Jun 13,2008

Mark Wahlberg

So, in my review of The Happening, I mention that Mark Wahlberg “regresses to the novice we saw in Boogie Nights.” His performance is just that bad. I didn’t blame...

By • Jun 12,2008

Gitmo

James is pretty much right on Guantanamo and this ruling: the problem isn’t Gitmo itself but holding people without trial (or coming up with a charge) for the better part...