The Washington Monthly did an excellent, ultimately sympathetic portrayal of Niall Ferguson a few years back that is well worth reading. It sums up the general “conservative intellectual” thing quite well. His influence comes from his dramatic, sweeping intellectual style, whose theme is, more or less, “Everything you thought you knew about history is wrong.” …
Archives for February 2010
CBS Sunday Morning
Have at it! ***Update*** Or maybe not. Comcast has now decided I no longer deserve CBS, either. I’m now down to basically AMC, USA, SYFY, and HBO. And there is a thirty minute hold to get through.
Early Morning Open Thread
I liked Cyndi Lauper when we were both pushing thirty, and I like her 25 years later: __ She is still doing “All Through the Night” in concert, although not quite in the same style: Fair warning: Unless you have made peace with your memories of the 80s, do not YouTube the search string ‘pipers …
Finally one of Abramoff’s Congressmen is in jail…
Too bad it is only former Congressman John Sweeney and too bad that it is for drunk driving and not the crimes he committed in office. Still, the little weasel is behind bars and that can’t be bad. Back in 2006 I wrote about Sweeney’s involvement with Abramoff over at the GOS. And later that …
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Complex adaptive systems
I’m never sure if it’s worth blogging about things like this, but sometimes I suddenly see commentators, usually conservative commentators, using a phrase I’ve never heard before and I wonder if it’s going to become part of their standard shtick. A few weeks I read Jim Manzi argue that we shouldn’t try to do anything …
How Krugman became K-Thug
Just finished the New Yorker Krugman piece. I realize that what the world needs now is another Bob Somerby like I need a hole in my head, but I’m always struck by what a watershed event the 2000 election was: It was the 2000 election campaign that finally radicalized him. He’d begun writing his column …
Blerg
For some reason, Comcast has decided I do not need half of my channels, including all of the ones with the Olympics. I do have Sci-Fi, though, and was wondering if anyone had seen Beyond Sherwood Forest. Also, here is another open thread.