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‘None of the Leave campaigns come close. Instead, they cast slurs on the integrity of the economists who have little axe to grind; they pretend that a model result showing Brexit having economic costs is good for their argument because … Continue reading →

  Mr Williamson has given voice to what Wm. F. Buckley actually thought, of all those who weren’t him! But  Mr Williamson sounds more like a latter day Nietzsche opining about the lower orders of humanity. National Review snobbery seems … Continue reading →

I read Douthat’s essay and was underwhelmed, his political focus is so utterly narrow, and he lacks curiosity, a trait  which might just be essential when you are a pundit, or at the least claim that status. The whole of … Continue reading →

Is there noting like Mr. Ganesh in high dudgeon? It is an exhilarating rhetorical experience dotted with pop culture references, though light years from Disraeli’s Vivian Grey: an instance of post adolescent poking fun? Mr. Ganesh means to be wounding, … Continue reading →

‘ By most accounts, Holmes, an upper-crust Bostonian, served the nobler instincts of America’s privileged classes. That is why his reckless majority opinion supporting forced sterilization in a 1927 case remains an enigma. Was it an isolated misstep or something … Continue reading →

I care not one whit whether Judge Garland’s tears were real or feigned! Totally irrelevant to the pressing civic/political question of Judge Garland’s treatment of defendants that come before him, in the cases he reviews. What evidence do we have … Continue reading →

How regrettable that your two reporters do not even mention, due to historical ignorance? the 1964 Republican Convention, that might just be the only loose analogy to the political present? Rockefeller/Hershey vs. Goldwater, Liberals vs. Conservatives: the very idea of … Continue reading →

The Silver Fork Punditry that Mr. Ganesh practices with such aplomb, not to speak of sang-froid seems to degenerated into the usual stern moral/political lecture favored by Conservatives. Yet the millennials he targets are just part of a collection of … Continue reading →

The choice of Judge Garland reflects the ersatz virtue of Obama: he is not simply a ‘Centrist’, of the most unimaginative kind, but more importantly an abject political/legal conformist. The safe choice of a ‘Centrist’ a center defined by the … Continue reading →

There are no surprises here! The Republican Nihilists, named ‘The Freedom Coalition’, as unintentional homage to double speak? will, in an election year, prove by their political actions that they are simply the shock troops for Mr. Trump as American … Continue reading →