Oh, Brother

Richard Perle's still hawking the neocon project, and PBS and the Washington Post are still giving him a platform to do so. If you, dear reader, can think of any questions for Mr. End-to-Evil, he'll be online Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET for a discussion. I doubt he'll swing...

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Radicals for Capitalism — in the Bay Area!

Brian Doherty is out hawking his new book Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the American Libertarian Movement. He'll be reading from it, talking about it, signing it etc. at Cody's in Berkeley this Sunday, April 15, at 4 pm. That's 4 in the afternoon,...

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Satiric Libertarianism

Writing on the Reason magazine website, neocon Michael Young bemoans the lack of an American equivalent of Le Canard Enchaine: "You have to wonder why a similar national publication doesn't exist in the U.S. The popularity of The Onion, or the fact that a magazine...

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Edwardian Evasions

Via Matt Yglesias, here's John Edwards' position on the withdrawal-from-Iraq question: When we say complete withdrawal we mean it. No more war. No combat troops in the country. Period. But we're also being honest. If John Edwards is president, we're not going to leave...

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