A paean to stupidity at TCSDaily admonishes conservatives not to worry overmuch about being seen as dim if they adhere stubbornly to tradition, even in the face of countervailing arguments that may seem both cogent and unanswerable. Since dangerous utopian dreamers may be the more intellectually dazzling debaters, “the desire to appear intelligent at all […]

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Is nothing sacred?

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Kerry Howley is ably defending her phenomenal Reason cover story on guest worker programs against all comers, and en passant makes a wonderful—and generalizable—point worth dwelling on for a moment: Here’s another way to think about it: Clubs have positive duties toward their members, including those of the welfare state. But the negative duty not […]

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Depressing, depressing, depressing.

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Headline says it all, really:

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This Washington Post profile of Reason parties is both saturated with an undertone of snark and fairly on-the-nose. The one thing I’m a little perplexed about is the choice to repeatedly emphasize the “mostly male” editorial staff. It’s accurate—only four of 15 editors are women—and it surely merits comment, even if it’s a familiar point, […]

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Ok, I’m no Romney fan, but I want every blogger who’s making a fuss about how Mitt only figuratively “saw” his father march with Martin Luther King to try the following exercise. Google your own archives for “I saw” or “we saw” and scan for instances where, especially if you’re talking about something that happened […]

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One more in my occasional neologisms series: Journalistic Doppler (n): The phenomenon by which an article, especially one written rapidly about a complex topic, changes dramatically in style and pace as the author approaches deadline and/or word limit, progressing from a leisurely, relatively crafted opening to a dense core-dump of every idea or datum that […]

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Kerry Howley’s Reason cover story on guest workers is just about the best long-form magazine piece I’ve read in… well, if I say “ever” someone will bring up “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” but a long damn while. Seriously, go read it.

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I’ve got a quickie overview over at Ars Technica; something more analytic soon.

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