I’m a lover of poetry, as you can probably tell from the number of posts listed in that category on my right sidebar (as I write this, it’s 161). But the poetry of the last twenty or thirty or even … Continue reading →
Just read it.
Continue reading →I’ve never read anything by Bret Easton Ellis before. One reason is that I don’t like fiction all that much unless it’s fabulous, and I definitely don’t like violent fiction, which by all accounts American Psycho (Ellis’s most popular novel) … Continue reading →
As Glenn Reynolds writes: Note that I say “free speech” and not “First Amendment.” The First Amendment only limits government, but “free speech” is — or at least until very recently was — a broader social value in favor of … Continue reading →
Whatever the reasons, it’s dangerous for governments to confiscate the land of citizens without compensation, as the leading party of South Africa is now poised to do. Their reasons reflect the complex history of South Africa, a place where black … Continue reading →
I have sometimes thought that it was a very good thing that the Nazis, despite all their Germanic thoroughness, were still in the relative dark ages of technology. I’m not just talking about weaponry. I’m talking about keeping track of … Continue reading →
More economic ignorance on display from Ocasio-Cortez, possessor of a dual degree in economics and international relations from Boston University. See this as well. When I was reading about the latest from Ocasio-Cortez, I started to remember all the giddy … Continue reading →
The title of this post refers to the old joke about the optimistic child: There is a famous joke about a child who wakes up on Christmas morning and is surprised to find a heap of horse manure under the … Continue reading →
The FISA application for surveillance on Carter Page finally was released to the public on Saturday, in a heavily redacted but lengthy version. Saturday is the time that news stories ordinarily go to die, but this one has gotten quite … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly-edited repeat of a previous post.] I saw that film on TV maybe 30 times when I was a child. Loved it, and in particular loved the idea that James Cagney—whom I already knew as a … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post. It was written in the springtime quite few years ago, during a visit to New York.] I’ve been visiting New York City, the place where I grew up. I decide to … Continue reading →
The United States is one of the strongest bastions of free speech in the world, and perhaps one of the last. Even Europe doesn’t have anything like our protections for free speech, nor does Canada. Both have hate speech laws, … Continue reading →