Peter Lawler

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. . . because a devastating attack from North Korea is promised tomorrow. I really don’t know what to make of this. I agree, of course, with Carl on the tyranno-pathological character of the regime. That means, of course, that we can’t be sure they won’t do something really . . . . Continue Reading »

1. There’s a dispute on another FIRST THINGS blog on where the word “Easter” came from. No matter who’s right, I have to admit that, unlike “Christmas,” it has no distinctively Christian connotation. Still, “He is risen . . . ,” and let’s hope . . . . Continue Reading »

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So liberals are especially good at calling conservatives flip-floppers. It usually works because conservatives aren’t so great at explaining themselves. Jeffrey Rosen , in this great tradition, thinks in THE NEW REPUBLIC that the Court will probably overturn the DOMA on grounds of federalism . . . . Continue Reading »

So I’ve gotten lots and lots comments on my MINDING THE CAMPUS “short take” on cutting higher education costs by scuttling the hotel. Here’s a nice appreciation by a new leftist. It’s more evidence still that, on behalf of genuinely higher education, lefties of a . . . . Continue Reading »

Glenn Reynolds’ doesn’t diss my anti-bubble thought-experiment. . . . . Continue Reading »

So I’m sad and lonely in not being able to join our Carl, our Ralph, and two semi-modern women in LA this week. So I thought I’d post the conclusion to my TRUE GRIT study as compensation: We have to think hard about Mattie as a modern woman: She’s all about lawfulness, mathematical . . . . Continue Reading »

On another of Glenn Reynolds’ ingenious ideas . . . . . . . Continue Reading »

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