Amy explains why yesterday’s National Day of Prayer as it’s actually instituted constitutes a flagrant violation of the Establishment Clause.

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If you’ve ever used one of those mainstream travel guides to navigate D.C., you may have noticed that their picture of the District seems to have passed through a weird funhouse mirror: Northwest is inflated to gargantuan proportions and the other quadrants…. other quadrants? Yep, D.C. is not, in fact, just Northwest. Not that you’d […]

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Wow. Someone has just taken the whole Lott/Rosh thing to a whole other level… Geez, I almost feel sorry for the guy.

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Ah, May Day… it’s a toothpaste, it’s a shoe polish, it’s many holidays in one! Creepy authoritarian types can celebrate Loyalty Day… maybe by volunteering to be interrogated, background checked, and body-cavity-searched by John Ashcroft personally. I feel more secure just thinking about it. If you’re keen on law and order, or even just Law […]

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Chuck Freund thinks the war in Iraq has dealt a final death blow to Pan-Arabism. Orson Scott Card thinks that it may have sown the seeds of its reemergence.

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Jim Henley points to a “magisterial” piece by Cogent Provocateur on the huge WMD (or WSD) stocks that have thus far failed to materialize. Aside from being an excellent piece of independent analysis, the essay is also a useful clearing house of links to various stories on the issue. We are being gradually prepared for […]

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Sasha Castel-Dodge links to this Sunday Telegraph story on the fallout from Nurse Bloomberg’s campaign to make you a better person. The Boston Globe comes to similar conclusions. Long story short: New York ain’t California, where the bronzed, toned, and cap-toothed eunuchs don’t mind if their social sphere is as sterile as their screenplay plots. […]

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You know, rebutting Stan Kurtz is starting to feel a little like debunking astrology. I mean, it’s fun, but why bother? Anyone actually looking for a serious argument will come away from a piece like this with tears of laughter streaming down their face without a need for any third party commentary, and anyone who […]

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I just chanced across an excellent debate between consumer culture booster James Twitchell and Marxist media critic Sut Jhally. Consumer preferences shape ads; ads shape consumer preferences. Which is the snake head, and which the tail it bites? Does it matter?

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Tom Palmer, who shares with Brink the role of capo di tutti capo of the Cato Blog Mafia, has been giving a series of lectures on globalization at colleges and universities around the country. Out in that wilderness, capitalism and globalization (often prefixed with “corporate driven”) tend to be dirty words, though only for rather […]

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