Paul Krugman’s NYT Column “The Bully’s Pulpit” and a post by Josh Marshall at TPM both lambaste a recent memo [Word] put out by the National Republican Congressional Committee that urged reporters not to use the term “privatization” to refer to Social Security reform plans involving personal investment accounts. Now, Krugman and Marshall are clearly […]

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John Powers has a column in the L.A. Weekly comparing America’s two most intensely partisan middlebrow political mags: The Nation and The Weekly Standard. He points out that the former — a classical liberal mag in a better era, if you can believe it — is painfully dreary, while the latter is punchy and fun. […]

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So a couple of things bothered me about a recent Zogby Poll [RealVideo] on Social Security that Cato commissioned. The first is that we see two pretty clear results: people under 55 are overwhelmingly in support of partial privatiz… whoops, sorry, there might be Republicans with weak hearts reading… “personal accounts.” But those over 55 […]

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Some months ago, I began (fitfully) working on a book — a guide to the deployment of libertarian arguments — primarily in the context of formal debate rounds, but also, at least partly, in friendly argumentation. Having been a bit sidetracked by the whole moving-to-D.C. business, I put it on the back burner temporarily, but […]

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Yeah, I know I’m arriving pretty late to this little ball, but I thought I should do an LFB column on the topic… With the Taliban in tatters and UBL reduced to bouncing on stalagmites for kicks, it’s becoming increasingly clear to GOP strategists that actual ground fighting in our perpetual war for perpetual peace […]

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Just when I’m starting to appreciate the charms of our nation’s fair capital, I go and do something silly like return to Manhattan. It’s only upon arriving after a while away that I realized — surprised, and then surprised to be surprised — how much five years there had made even NYC feel like home. […]

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