In Jerry Z. Muller's The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought, one finds a detailed description of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in the context of the anti-commerce/anti-market era in which it was written. Hobbes questioned his era's Christian virtues of...
Even Tony Blankley is heading for the exits on the President's Trotskyite inaugural speech: "Utopian" and "unsustainable" are a few of the kindest characterizations he had to offer on "The McLaughlin Group." Pat had the best line: "He's Woodrow Wilson on...
The warblog-O-sphere echo chamber is busy linking to itself in a self-referential circle-post over Jackie Spinner's Washington Post account of a pro-American Iraqi, humiliated by American troops in a home raid: On the night of Jan. 5, Imaad and his mother, Um...
Cryptome.org, the indispensable website for those who want to penetrate the U.S. government's veil of secrecy, has gotten its hot little hands on a series of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) daily morning briefs, a weird mixture of the comical ... "8. (FOUO)...
Chris Matthews just called Andrew Sullivan "a cock-eyed optimist" for insisting that the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi election is going to be a resounding success. He's got the first syllable right....
I never thought I'd miss party-lining neocon Kate O'Beirne's absence from "Capital Gang," but all i can say to Ramesh Ponnuru is: You got that right .
Remember the scary Chinese terrorists that were going to blow up Boston?The FBI said a Chinese woman wanted in connection with an alleged terrorist plot against Boston has been in a U.S. Customs detention facility since November and doesn't appear to have terrorist...
Here's an interesting survey by the APME on the use of graphic photos, courtesy of Ryan at Dead Parrots Society. Here's Ryan's accompanying article: Readers, journalists struggle with same issues in publishing graphic photos. Another APME survey to talk about, about...
Why do they hate us?
Zeyad at Healing Iraq has an interesting post on the elections. I'm not sure how right he is in his assessment, but then it's probably impossible for anyone to gather much information with the chaotic conditions prevalent right now in Iraq. Some interesting...
