The problem is not just that this stuff sounds bad, it's that political demagogues like Pat Buchanan pick up this stuff and twist

We have now entered the full, no-holds-barred insanity stage:

Richard Perle, a chief proponent of last year's U.S. invasion of Iraq, yesterday called for the chiefs of the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency to step down because of their faulty conclusions that Saddam Hussein pos

Throughout history the bureaucratic centralization of Empire, and its foreign policy of Imperialism, has inevitably led to moral, cultural, economic and, eventually even military decline.

When the Romans lost three legions to the Germans in the Teutoberg forest in 9 AD, they lacked the economic resources to replace them, even though the territorial expansion continued for some years afterward. The Roman Empire’s strategists had the good sense to sustain what they had conquered for many

I wrote up a point-by-point rebuttal -- sometimes known in the blogposphere as a"fisking" -- for Tech Central Station.

Francis Wheen's latest book is deliciously entitled, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions.

The book does not appear to be presently available in the U.S. Thankfully though, Wheen's former employer The Guardian has recently published a

I'm going to break my own promise about the left-bias issue and make one more observation (and it's better than those creepy economists Radley linked to... {shiver}). I suggested that I would engage in a more detailed response to Ed Feser's two-part series on the subject at Tech Central Station. Well part two is out, and I'm going to pass. Ed, who I've met and respect as a Hayek scholar, but with whom I've tangled o

I'll bet the fund would do pretty darned well.

Bryan Curtis' NASCAR article in yesterday's Slate once again shows why the left continues to haunt itself in national politics and contemporary culture. I know it's probably silly to say this outside of the DC/NYC corridor but NASCAR is not JUST about, as Curtis describes them, cultu

According to a Rasmussen poll,"Sixty-four percent (64%) of American voters say that they prefer smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes....Support for smaller government cu

Here's another unhelpful piece on why academia leans left. If I were a left-leaning academic, I would find this one rather insulting myself. Maybe it's just me, but suggesting that academics live in a world of "freedom without responsibility" and that the one responsibility we have, teaching, is one we are constantly trying to reduce at all costs, is both insulting and wrong. Once again, people are g

On the subject of intellectual diversity on college campuses, I call your attention to this lengthy piece by Ed Feser at Tech Central Station. I don't have the time to tackle Ed's various arguments about why academia leans to the left, and I should wait until Part II comes out before I respond anyway. For now, I'll just say that I think he raises some interesting arguments, only a few of which ring true for me. The

I've been thinking about the issue Radley raises about the same-sex marriages in San Francisco as well. And I think he's put his finger (or Insta's I guess) on the puzzle for me too: is it a legitimate form of civil disobedience for an agent of the state to violate a law he or she has sworn to uphold when he or she believes that law to be immoral? My own view is that the constitutional principle at stake trumps the importan