I think America’s system of easy bankruptcy is one of the jewels of our economic and political institutions, because it allows people who genuinely cannot repay their bills to get a fresh start as quickly as possible. I think non-recourse mortgages are an excellent idea, which I would like to . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t usually say this — in fact, I’ve never said it — but go read Frank Rich: specifically, his long column on the Decade of Bamboozlement . Beneath the flash of the cons that characterized the past ten years, however, is a quieter and truer truth: corruption. It is, as . . . . Continue Reading »
Do physics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and related fields of inquiry provide evidence for life after death? Dinesh D’Souza considers that question in his latest book . But as Joseph Bottum says in a review for National Review (sub. req.), D’Souza is out of his depth: Every once . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in The Weekly Standard , my editor Joseph Bottum encourages us to listen to the peculiar, poetic language of Christmas: [T]here is something more in Advent than just the happenstantial activity of our nativity language, something more than the plain task of getting across a complex seasonal . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times has a lengthy profile of one of my intellectual heroes—Princeton professor and First Things advisory board member Robert George : For 20 years, George has operated largely out of public view at the intersection of academia, religion and politics. In the past 12 months, . . . . Continue Reading »
I had hoped that my senator, Ben Nelson from Nebraska, would stand up for the sanctity of life. His vote turned out to be decisive for moving the health care legislation forward in the Senate, and it looked as though he would hold out for something like the Stupak amendment to the Senate . . . . Continue Reading »
Copenhagen is over, and it is even less than met the eye yesterday. In fact, the “deal” isn’t even really a deal. From the story:After intense overnight wrangling, delegates from 192 countries on Saturday passed a motion simply “noting” a loose deal aimed at . . . . Continue Reading »
The NYT today profiles Princeton’s Robert P. George, The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker.HT: James . . . . Continue Reading »
Sigh. Even Native Americans are the bad guys when hysterical scientists start pounding the End Of the World Drum. A new study predicts that we will cause a mass extinction worse than what happened to the dinosaurs. From the story:The study of the fossil and archaeological record over the . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan says something that gets the wheels turning: At the moment, my side, the partisans of going after downscale voters first, is losing the argument to those who recommend going after the voters Michael Petrilli has described as ” Whole Foods Republicans .” What makes these voters . . . . Continue Reading »
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