Question for zealous proponents of ESCR. Why are you still talking about it like it’s the only answer? This sounds much more promising than we were hearing even just a few years ago. At long last, the glint in a researcher’s eye has been turned into a significant advance in the clinic. Forget all the… Continue reading

Jay Fitzgerald points to this excellent summation of what went wrong with conservatism. Back in the ’70s, conservative intellectuals loved to talk about “radical chic,” the well-known tendency of educated, often wealthy liberals to project their political fantasies onto brutal revolutionaries and street thugs, and romanticize their “struggles.” But “populist chic” is just the inversion… Continue reading

Great to see them all again…. Hat tip: John Wilkins.

Andrew Sullivan is having some fun making sport of National Review’s tacky predilection for annual cruises. I don’t blame him. Honestly. Perhaps while the blessed WFB was still alive and up for this sort of thing, given his affection for all things nautical, maybe it made sense. But really. If it’s time for conservative journals… Continue reading

Dan Kennedy brings us up to date on what’s rotten in the state of Massachusetts: I am pleased to report that everything has returned to normal in the land of the bean and the cod. While the rest of America celebrates the election of Barack Obama and hunkers down for the economic apocalypse, we in… Continue reading