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February 10, 2011 | Pajamas Media

Criticizing Elites, Cultivating Excellence

From the perspective of our founding fathers, our elites deserve rigorous criticism. But we mustn’t stop there...
February 3, 2011 | Lawfare

Eugene Volokh and a Reader on the NYT Detention Editorials

To put the matter simply, it is not indefiniteness to which the Times is objecting. It is non-criminal detention itself...
January 28, 2011 | Big Peace

Sarah Palin Schools the Washington Post on History

Intellectual debate is well and good, but if you’re going to condescend, you better have something to condescend about. In this case Steve Stromberg of the Washington Post just got schooled by Sarah Palin...
January 26, 2011 | Works and Days

Welcome to the Oddball Club

I’ve discovered there is an unofficial oddball club out there — of which I am a member. It is of no particular political persuasion, but clearly at variance with the norms of popular culture. I think I can roughly delineate the rules of our informal club membership...
January 27, 2011 | Tribune Media Services

The Loud Passing of the Old Order

In response to this topsy-turvy world, the traditional media, tenured professors, well-paid public employees, rigid ethnic and racial lobbies, unions, organized retirees, open-borders advocates and entrenched politicians all are understandably claiming that we live in an uncivil age...
January 21, 2011 | Arena (Politico)

Olbermann: Sad farewell or good riddance?

Ready, folks? Here are the three principal reasons why I won't miss Keith Olbermann...
January 21, 2011 | National Review Online

Civility for Thee

In 2012 Obama will hope that his polarizing politics, coupled with calls for bipartisanship, will trump his unpopular record...
January 19, 2011 | Works and Days

The War Against Palin Goes On and On and…

[S]ince the moment of the Tucson shootings we have witnessed not just a campaign to smear Sarah Palin with the charge that she, or what she supposedly represents, is responsible for the mayhem, but that her rebuttals themselves are more proof that she is culpable...
January 14, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society

Rachel Maddow is no Glenn Beck

...[I]n truth Maddow and Beck are creatures of the new media, commentators who sprang from nowhere, their stock in trade is opinion pure and simple...
January 18, 2011 | Creators Syndicate

Budget Crisis Rhetoric: Part II

We all know not to take politicians' rhetoric at face value. But not enough of us have yet learned not to take media rhetoric at face value either, even when it appears in what looks like a "news" story...