And the winner is: Michael Novak

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If the anticipation for next week’s State of the Union Speech is just killing you, and you’ve already watched the pregame show and bought the T-shirt, you might spend some time playing with this funky little widget that breaks down each SotU address, giving the grade-level at which the prose is pitched and showing the […]

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If, as Megan complains, some of us who opposed the war in Iraq (it belatedly occurs to me that “doves” is too open to misreading) are a bit hung up on the whole who-was-right, who-was-wrong thing, perhaps this piece in Radar, looking at how pundits on opposite sides of the issue before the war have […]

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Plenty of others have by now responded to the general tone of this Jason Zengerle post at The Plank, so let me just zero in on this: I’m talking about something more nebulous: what are the consequences of America losing a war–which is, after all, what withdrawal will mean? What will it do to our […]

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Via Volokh Conspiracy, I see that Richard Posner and Gary Becker have a pair of posts on the idea of “libertarian paternalism” (a notion introduced a couple years back in a paper by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler). The idea behind this “libertarian” or “soft paternalism” is that government rules seek to shape or influence […]

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…in The Atlantic. (H/T: DCist)

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Jesse Walker has the best obituary/tribute I’ve seen since the death of professional mindbender Robert Anton Wilson.

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The America’s Future Foundation will be hosting a debate next week on “The Future of Fusionism.” Swing by Heritage on January 25th to see David Boaz vs. Ramesh Ponnuru and (grudge match!) Brink Lindsey vs. Jon Chait.

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Megan McArdle argues that those of us who opposed the Iraq War from the get-go should pause a moment before we dislocate our elbows patting ourselves on the back: This has not convinced me of the brilliance of the doves, because precisely none of the ones that I argued with predicted that things would go […]

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It seems the 22nd century levitating-tour of great DC landmarks will be stopping only briefly at the corner of 13th St. and Florida, where I’m currently living with Reasonoids Dave Weigel and Kerry Howley. The owners are (somewhat unexpectedly) moving back from the UK in March, and so we’re suddenly three libertoids in search of […]

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