I Want to Be a Non-Conformist Just Like Everyone Else

Commentary by , April 24, 2018

Five Things You Need to Read Today Here is your latest update, for subscribers only, recommending five stories that are worth catching. 1. Marco Rubio Swims with the Current Marco Rubio really, really wants to be president. How much does he want it? Enough to swim with the current. In the 2016 primaries, Rubio represented […]

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Followers

Feature Article by , April 23, 2018

There is now widespread agreement that social media is a problem. In describing his hiring at The Atlantic and abrupt firing at the behest of a Twitter mob, Kevin Williamson concludes that the problem is how “the rage-fueled tribalism of social media, especially Twitter, has infected the op-ed pages and, to some extent, the rest […]

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The Operation of the Moral Law

Feature Article by , April 20, 2018

 A Reader’s Guide to Atlas Shrugged, Part 11 Spoiler Alert: You do not need a reader’s guide to Atlas Shrugged—at least not for your first reading. Ayn Rand’s novel is clear, compelling, eminently readable, and perfectly comprehensible on its own terms. Yet Atlas is also a rich and complex novel, with an intricate plot in […]

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Adult Supervision

Commentary by , April 19, 2018

Five Things You Need to Read Today Here is your latest update, for subscribers only, recommending five stories that are worth catching. 1. What Democratic Party Rule Looks Like I recently directed your attention to an article arguing for California as a model of one-party rule, which is to say Democratic Party rule. Among the […]

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Trump Can’t Either Win Or Go Home

Feature Article by , April 16, 2018

President Trump has announced American air strikes against the Assad regime in Syria, in partnership with Britain and France. The airstrikes are for one night only, supposedly targeting the “heart” of Syria’s chemical weapons program, though the Department of Defense “acknowledged that the Syrian government most likely retained some ability to again attack its own […]

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An Intellectual Eats a Chicken Sandwich

Commentary by , April 15, 2018

Five Things You Need to Read Today Here is your latest update, for subscribers only, recommending five stories that are worth catching. 1. Trump Can’t Either Win Or Go Home President Trump has announced American air strikes against the Assad regime in Syria, in partnership with Britain and France. The airstrikes are for one night […]

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Britain’s Knife Control Is a Bad Parody of Gun Control

Feature Article by , April 13, 2018

If you set out to write a parody showing the folly of gun control, it might look something like this. London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced a crackdown on knives Sunday in response to the rising levels of violence in London, which recently surpassed New York City’s homicide rate for the first time. “No excuses: there […]

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Adventures Across the Poe Horizon

Commentary by , April 11, 2018

Five Things You Need to Read Today Here is your latest update, for subscribers only, recommending five stories that are worth catching. 1. Adventures Across the Poe Horizon, Part 1 If you set out to write a parody showing the folly of gun control, it might look something like this. “London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced […]

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The Clinton Impeachment Rerun We Didn’t Want But Probably Deserve

Commentary by , April 10, 2018

If the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s lawyer is about what we think it’s about, that raises an uncomfortable possibility: we could be living through a rerun of the Clinton impeachment crisis. Some regard the raid on Michael Cohen as an outrageous attempt to breach lawyer-client confidentiality, though there are supposedly safeguards intended to prevent […]

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Why “Win and Go Home” Doesn’t Work

Feature Article by , April 9, 2018

President Trump took to Twitter (obligatory eye roll) to threaten Syria over its latest chemical weapons attack on civilians. Yet previous reports indicated that after the collapse of ISIS, Trump had been wanting to declare victory and go home. Well, that’s the trick, isn’t it? The “win and go home” meme is popular among America […]

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