Carl Scott

It’s been a while since anyone’s been able to write that. But that’s the basic feel of this Jonathan Tobin post at Commentary , which Jim hipped me to, “Beating the Brotherhood Isn’t Impossible.” Here’s the most comforting sentence: The Arab spring may have . . . . Continue Reading »

You’ve heard it over, and over, and over again: The Citizens United decision empowered corporations! Enacted oligarchy! Or, let’s do an official one, from an HP writer :  it “unleashed independent unlimited spending of unlimited contributions by corporations, including . . . . Continue Reading »

What happens when a whole people harden their hearts? Plagues. Back in my home state of California, the entrenchment of liberal governance, and the passive see-no-evil acceptance of it by broad majorities of the populace, is now directly threatening the safety of the people through a series of . . . . Continue Reading »

No, A. Scott Berg, even if you have won a Pulitzer-Prize, even if you are a personality-and-event focused biographer and not an idea-focused one, you do not get a pass when you write an 800-page biography of Woodrow Wilson in the year 2013 to omit any reference whatsoever to the scholarship of . . . . Continue Reading »

Rolling Stone magazine is reporting that Lou Reed has died . RIP, and our condolences to his loved ones, including his wife Laurie Anderson. I mainly know Reed through his Velvet Underground work, i.e., I had not yet got around to extensively listening to his solo stuff. And very impressive work it . . . . Continue Reading »

Everything is just peachy-keen: Yeah, that’s one of the ads Colorado Democrats, oh, I’m so sorry, Colorado bureaucrats , are using to peddle Obamacare sign-ups.  H/T Ricochet—their post, Idiocracy Has Arrived , has a link to the official website if you can stomach it. No, . . . . Continue Reading »

With respect to Peter’s latest Big Think, a warning, and a push-back. There are a number of hard-to-figure things about the Japanese, and perhaps, building on top of distinctive cultural traits regarding sex and love that go way back, the 21st century Japanese really have become erotically . . . . Continue Reading »

So saith Ozbama, the Great and Powerful, to an idealistic young Dorothy, a bright-eyed millennial Obama Girl wondering how she can ever get back to the land of expected economic American normality all her sweet elders told her about. What she needs is a strong dose of The Stanley Druckenmiller . . . . Continue Reading »

Okay, I admit it. The American Conservative is awesome. I’ve had my issues with TAC over the years . . . . . . and likely would know of more if I still read it regularly (even if I do suspect the vitriol they fed on so eagerly during the aughties has gotten old for them by now), but when they . . . . Continue Reading »

Yuval Levin has done some must-read reporting on the how the Obamacare exchanges are doing so far at National Review Online. Even given what you know already, it’s shocking: The tone of the CMS officials who spoke with me was a kind of restrained panic. What is the CMS? Boy, you’d better . . . . Continue Reading »