Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 16,2008

A progressive book club?

It’s easy to make jokes about the publishing industry being full of liberals, or churning out books about liberals for liberals. I think the bigger problem is probably region bias....

By Sonny Bunch • Jun 16,2008

Meet the Press

Over at the Weekly Standard‘s blog, I write up the four big Sunday morning talk shows each weekend. It’s not exhaustive, typically not too much more than brief summaries of...

By James Poulos • Jun 16,2008

Phony Multivocality as Real Cowardice

I´m a little late to Julian´s also-belated take on the German paper that ran a headline about the White House as “Uncle Barack´s Cabin,” but one element of the story...

By James Poulos • Jun 15,2008

Gambas al Ajillo

I´ve been eating Spain´s tasty and delicious garlic shrimp as often as possible out here in Madrid. In a fine fit of synergy, Ezra has posted his recipe for the...

By James Poulos • 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 James Poulos • 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...