Here’s a problem some of you probably share. I’ve got a stack of books lying around that I’ve been meaning to read. And there’ll be a handful I’m poking through at any given time. But often, when I decide I’m going to sit down and read for a while, the prospect of starting something new […]

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I’ll probably try to send out a mass email sometime soon, but I lost my cellphone recently, and most of my numbers with it. So, if I once had your number, or I ought to have your number even if I didn’t before, email me.

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Matthew Yglesias has posted a first draft of his senior thesis, which argues that the (later) Rawlsian attempt to “levitate” liberalism by disconnecting political morality from “comprehensive” views about ethics, metaphysics, or epistemology is plagued by internal tensions. He looks at the debate over evolution vs. creation in public schooling to make his point, arguing […]

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Some nefarious fellow in Russia has stolen (well, copied, but don’t let Jack Valenti hear you making the distinction…) the major writings of George Orwell and archived them online. Due to this egregious undermining of incentives, we can rest assured that Orwell will never write another essay or novel again. Those of you tempted to […]

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After September’s anti-globalization protests here in D.C., I wrote with no small measure of disgust that the police appeared to have arrested thousands of protesters under false pretenses. Marchers were charged with “failure to obey a police order” to disperse, cuffed, and carted off to be detained, where many paid fines to secure their release […]

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…from the Department of Justice. At least, according to Radley, who targets John Ashcroft in a six-post series.

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I’m delighted to see that the D.C. Opera’s next two productions are both excellent pieces of music and works of classical liberal polemic. First up is Mozart’s Don Giovanni, which, when they make an operatic version of the movie High Fidelity will doubtless be on the narrator’s all-time “top five” list. The libretto is by […]

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I’m always shocked by the transparency of most email scams—the most famous one now making the rounds, of course, being the so-called “Nigerian Scam,” in which an heir of Mobutu Sese Seko or some other foreign thug offers to share an obscene amount of money with you if you’ll just give him access to your […]

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A tale of two gun scholars, in cartoon form.

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