Who When
Mar 09The date for the American premiere of series 6 (a.k.a. season 32) of Doctor Who has been revealed: April 23rd.
Shoeless, Metal-free, and Obedient
Mar 08Whenever I see this ad – – all I can think is: “you’re such a professional, you always have your lunch money ready for the school bully ahead of time.”
Travelin’ Man
Mar 08This semester is shaping up to be the most conference-intensive I’ve had. In January I had a double conference in La Jolla (a Liberty Fund on contemporary classical liberal thought, followed by a workshop on John Tomasi’s forthcoming book Free Market Fairness) and an IHS conference in Fredericksburg. Then this past weekend was my department’s [...]
The Logic of Marriage
Mar 03I’ve heard that my letter below was published in today’s Opelika-Auburn News; I haven’t seen a copy yet so I don’t know whether they cut anything. To the Editor: The arguments one hears nowadays against treating gays like human beings all seem to be recycled from the arguments 150 years ago against treating women like [...]
Atlas Shrunk, Part 5: Or, More Reasons For Pessimism
Mar 03Atlas’s description of Halley’s Fourth Concerto: It rose in tortured triumph, speaking its denial of pain, its hymn to a distant vision. … The Concerto was a great cry of rebellion. It was a ‘no’ flung at some vast process of torture, a denial of suffering, a denial that held the agony of the struggle [...]
Left-Conflationism With a Vengeance
Mar 01From the unintentional humor department: Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government. But if this were true, noted economist Jeff Madrick argues, the nation would not be experiencing stagnant wages, rising health care costs, increasing unemployment, and concentrations of wealth for a narrow elite. Actually the second sentence would [...]
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