Which is the Parody?
Posted on June 30th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
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Bush’s Keynesian Economy
Posted on June 30th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
Unemployment has remained reasonably low during the Bush era, but take a look at these statistics from the July Harper’s Index:
Estimated change since 2001 in the total number of U.S. private-sector jobs: +1,900,000
Estimated number of new private-sector jobs creaetd by government spending during that time: 2,800,000
Filed under: economics
Writing Up the Nash Event
Posted on June 30th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
I finally got around to sending in to LRC my article spinning off of the George Nash talk I attended early last week. Here it is: The Authoritarian Movement.
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty
Strengthening Caesar in the Name of the Lord
Posted on June 29th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
Laurence Vance quotes wise words from Thomas Fleming in the new issue of Chronicles. It’s worth mentioning that the context of Fleming’s remarks is two letters attempting to take him to task for saying that the federal government should butt out of the Terri Schiavo affair. One of the correspondents says that he was similarly [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty
Different Language, Different Math
Posted on June 28th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
“Chinese, English Spakers Do Math Differently.” A vindication of polylogism? Not exactly, but interesting nonetheless.
Filed under: Science
A Law Against Blasphemy
Posted on June 27th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
The Senate is proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit blasphemy — that is, flag-burning, blasphemy against the one true all-American faith, “our nation and its values.” The Washington Post reports:
Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) cast the debate in loftier terms. “Many Americans have come to see the flag as a sacred symbol of our nation [...]
Elegy for a Republic
Posted on June 26th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
Edwin Yoder reviews Gordon Wood's Revolutionary Characters in the summer books issue of The Weekly Standard. The piece gets at some of the elegiac qualities of Wood's book (which I highly recommend):
There is a note of sadness here, for Wood seems to believe that our present political habits would appall his gentlemen revolutionists. In their [...]
A Whole Lotta Lott
Posted on June 26th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
Defender of hypocrisy Jeremy Lott — no, no, that's not an insult, his book is called In Defense of Hypocrisy — has a new blog here. In the fullness of time, I'll review the book for TAC; in the meantime, get a taste of what Lott is cooking from his interview with Nick Gillespie.
Do Militarists and Prudes Mix?
Posted on June 25th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
I hope Eve Fairbanks got hazard pay for researching her New Republic article on conservative dating services. She's uncovered some sociological data that confirm just how culturally schizophrenic the Bush base is — or at least the narrow part of it that uses dating services:
The women on ConservativeMatch–at least the women of Washington, Virginia–are both [...]
Filed under: Ideology, Social criticism
The Case for Martin Van Buren?
Posted on June 24th, 2006 by Daniel McCarthy
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel makes one, though I remain skeptical about his proposed greatness. As Hummel points out, his lapses aren't inconsiderable.
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