All Is Fakery
Fantasy is the language they speak in Hollywood which makes foreigners, if not traitors, of the few remaining realists — From The American Spectator of September, 2012
Entry from September 27, 2012
Eric Posner in Slate argues that “the U.S. overvalues free speech” and makes a persuasive historical survey of how this freedom, once much hedged about, came to be regarded as absolute, first by the left and then by the right, only in the last half century or so. Despite its 18th-century constitutional provenance, the First Amendment…
Entry from September 24, 2012
On the radio where I live, local Ford dealers are advertising a sale of their “certified pre-owned vehicles” — that is to say, the items formerly known as used cars. Used car dealers, as some younger readers may not know, were once as much a metonymic by-word for dishonesty as the media are today. According…
Imposter, The
The portrait of a real-life French con-man who doesn’t succeed in being as charming as the film wants to portray him as being
Entry from September 11, 2012
How Intellectuals See The Election. . . . . . Well, of course it couldn’t be anything as simple as a matter of conservative versus liberal visions of the country’s future, could it? Probably, that would have been the case even if one of the candidates were not Barack “The Magic Negro” Obama, but his…
Lionel Asbo
The bad boy of English literature attempts to entertain with tales of the antics of a very bad boy indeed — From The Washington Times of August 31, 2012
Entry from August 30, 2012
My Ethics and Public Policy Center colleague Yuval Levin writes of how the latest Democratic attack ad directed against the Romney-Ryan proposals on Medicare is “just simply a pack of lies from top to bottom” and a confirmation of a journalist friend’s prediction as to how the Obama campaign will respond to an unusually strong Republican…
Up From the Ruling Class
On living in a meritocracy with no use for merit — From The American Spectator of July/August, 2012
Compliance
An insult to the human race can only be appealing to those who consider themselves, somehow, above it
2016: Obama’s America
Aren’t there enough reasons we know about to oppose the President’s re-election without our having to probe his psyche for hidden ones?
Entry from August 23, 2012
Today’s Washington Post has a rather prissy piece by Paul Farhi complaining about how politicians use the media for their own purposes in running critical ads about each other. In a new 30-second TV ad, Mitt Romney attacks President Obama and his aides for their campaign claims. Or, more precisely, the ad lets others do…