I was just talking with my father, who came to the U.S. from Spain in the early 70s, about the California election. He found it amazing, remarkable, that an immigrant with a heavy foreign accent would be elected governor of the country’s most populous state. Not only that, but it seems not to have been […]

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If only this weren’t a spoof…

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So as regular readers of this blog have probably divined, I devoted the bulk of my academic energies as an NYU undergrad to thinking about moral and political philosophy. But you don’t spend that much time in such a relentlessly analytic, technical department without cultivating a certain capacity to take glee in some rather more […]

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…sounds like a good name for an all-girl punk band, but actually I’m referring to this London Review of Books article about Fred’s devoted sibling Elizabeth. I had known that she was largely responsible for his (perfectly nonsensical if you read him carefully) appropriation by the Nazis; I hadn’t known precisely how nuts she really […]

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Since my punditry is largely being channeled through Hit and Run these days, I suppose I may as well resort to a personal update… Friday I finally met up with fellow cracker-lookin’ D.C. hispanic Matthew Yglesias (also now a fellow blogger-cum-political-journalist with TAP) for some beverages and good conversation. Then, in a throwback to my […]

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I envy the amount of free time Andrew Chamberlain obviously has: He’s got a lengthy game theoretic analysis of the strategic interaction involved with keeping your blinds open or closed.

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You know I’m getting lazy when I don’t even link new Reason articles until a few days after they’re posted… the latest is a look at the political tendencies of Millennials.

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