Liberty
Trump and ‘regulative fiction’
Mark Hemingway of the Federalist tackles the clash between President Trump and the Washington establishment. For some time, I have been trying to articulate a specific idea about how various…
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844–1900)
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Restoration of Community in an Age of Anxiety
The year 1776 was the high watermark of the Enlightenment. Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, and Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Both works were grounded in…
Liberty
Appreciating Tom Wolfe’s role
Matthew Continetti reflects at National Review Online on the late Tom Wolfe’s contribution to American intellectual debate. America’s writers, artists, and thinkers, and their media manqué, continue to argue that…
Liberty
Murray blames progressives, not liberals
Charles Murray explains for Wall Street Journal readers why liberals are not to blame for progressives’ foibles. A few weeks ago, I was thrown into a situation where I shared…
Energy
You might be a ‘progressive’ if …
… you’re incensed over the Hobby Lobby ruling, especially if you wish to believe — or desire others to believe — the ruling was about preventing women from gaining access…
Liberty
Some bits of wisdom among the moonbeams
A fascinating Bloomberg Businessweek cover story on California Gov. Jerry Brown includes occasional evidence that he’s willing to jog from left field to left center field at times to catch…
Liberty
Good Advice From a Conservative College Student
Duke Chronicle columnist Oliver Sherouse writes there’s no need for conservatives to despair at the results of last week’s election. The “cultish enthusiasm” for hope and change will fade, the…
Liberty
Screwing up the world
If the pen is mightier than the sword, it’s certainly just as dangerous. So argues BenjaminWiker in his book Ten Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That…
Liberty
'Nuther Lying Ass Mailer From VAR
Just flat out lies. Here we go: Hate being stuck in traffic? Think what it would be like with several thousand more cars on the road. If the transit tax…
Liberty
New MeckDeck Contest
Inspired by the indecipherable work of Uptown paper of record theater critic Julie York Coppens let’s play — Name Julie’s Native Language Here Julie’s clumsy first graf reminds one of…
Liberty
Ayn Rand and stretchy red super-suits
The Hood boys saw The Incredibles last night. Incredibly great entertainment, as Jeff and Paul previously observed. Later last night, I was catching up on my Christian Science Monitors and…