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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Even Dana Milbank Can No Longer Stomach Harry Reid
Long-time conservative piñata Dana Milbank comes down pretty hard today on the loathsome Harry Reid, he of “this war is lost” fame in 2007. It makes sense that Reid wouldn’t want to be questioned on the particulars of his outlandish accusation that Romney is the tax deadbeat of the decade. But those close to the…
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Dog Bites Man: MoveOn.org Twists the Truth
The folks behind the scurrilous “General Betray Us” ad have latched on to another issue to distort. One of the cool things about Facebook is that it provides a painless way of gaining exposure to alternate points of view. Liberal FB friends sometimes inspire me to rethink my own assumptions. Other times, like this, they…
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As GOP Looks for Leaders and Ideas, It Should Consider “Opportunity Conservatism”
K-Lo in The Corner linked the other day to a year-0ld National Review article about a potential next-generation GOP leader, Ted Cruz, the former Solicitor General of Texas. Turns out he’s Princeton Class of 1992, for those of you who care about such things. He needs some better photos, but I like the way he…
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Sen. James Webb: “White America is Hardly a Monolith”
In a riff on Nixon-goes-to-China, only a Democrat could get away with stating clearly and frankly the banal truth that sometimes white people suffer from racial discrimination in America. Fortunately, there’s a prominent Democrat willing to do so: Sen. James Webb of Virginia, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “Diversity and the…
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In Search of A Thoughtful Liberal Economist
A Facebook friend said Dean Baker is “a fine, clear-thinking economist, [and] he’s also an uncannily good press critic.” Sounds great — I’ve been looking for a source for regular commentary from a left-leaning economist, to balance out the right-leaning observations of my classmate Greg Mankiw. But I’m afraid I’m still looking.
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No, It’s NOT Racial Code
I listen to political podcasts on my iPod when I’m on the treadmill. One of the ones I like is the Slate Political Gabfest, even though all three regular panelists are strong Obama supporters. (So is almost everyone at Slate — when they polled their staffers, the vote went 55-1 for Obama over McCain, with…