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
Sean Carroll has been perusing arxiv and finds it instructive that denizens of the steady state theory are still publishing: For those with any lingering doubts, the Big Bang model — the idea that the universe has evolved from a hot, dense, smooth initial state — is correct, and the Steady State model should have… Continue reading