Here’s an excellent summary article of where we stand on health care today. It’s not a pleasant prospect, although well worth reading. And here’s another, which includes this thought: In true Jacksonian fashion, the country fired the Republicans in 2006 … Continue reading →
Yesterday there was a big discussion here about one of our perennially favorite topics—liberals, and whether or not they really have good intentions. For example, Steve G. wrote: Most people are of good will and that includes having good intentions. … Continue reading →
There’s a lively conversation going on in the comments section here about what has become one of our favorite topics: how dangerous is Obama? Meaning: how can you tell if tyranny is approaching, and especially whether it’s likely to be … Continue reading →
From a TNR piece by Jonathan Chait [emphasis mine]: Democracy Corps has a very interesting survey about the worldview of conservative Republicans. The focus group interviews show that the Republican right, which consists of about a fifth of the electorate, … Continue reading →
I read Orwell’s masterful dystopic political vision 1984 when I was about twelve years old, old enough to get what it was aiming at but young enough to be especially frightened by some of its most memorable images, which have … Continue reading →
The always-fascinating Richard Fernandez muses on whether we are witnessing the dying of the Left: Some months ago it became evident that blunders were piling on so fast, and they were of such enormity that they fed each other, like … Continue reading →
I’ve figured something out about Obama, and that is this: nearly everybody’s trying to figure Obama out. That’s one of the few things that unites America at the moment. Left and Right alike, people are busy asking the question “Who … Continue reading →
Once again, we have the news that a well-known person has died. But this time it’s neither a movie star nor a singer, but the man who was widely known as the father of neoconservatism (and the actual father of … Continue reading →
I’ve already weighed in on the birthers, and let’s just say I’m not particularly simpatico. But the following sentence from this piece by Mark Salter caught my eye: Today’s “birthers,” are no more offensive or weird than those who believe … Continue reading →
Tom Bevan analyzes Obama supporter Bob Herbert’s startling admission that “I have not spoken to anyone, either on Capitol Hill or elsewhere, who believes that [Obama’s pledge that his health care plan will not raise the deficit a dime] is … Continue reading →
This new book by Norman Podhoretz, exploring the question of why Jews are so overwhelmingly liberal, looks like another must-read. The same dependably liberal voting record seems to also be true of blacks in America. It may not be PC … Continue reading →
Perhaps many of you have heard of writer Raymond Aron before, but I hadn’t until I picked up a collection of essays by Roger Kimball published in 2002 and entitled Lives of the Mind. Aron was the author of a … Continue reading →