Tim Cavanaugh at Reason asks, "If Harvey Mansfield is so manly, how come he gets his ass kicked by Naomi Wolf (a Yalie, for God's sake!) in this C-SPAN interview?" Here's a snippet:
Manly Mansfield: "What we need is the reconsideration of feminists, to make a place for men. To find something that men can do [...]
Nobody in his or her right mind would follow my lead in recreational pursuits, but for the voyeuristic among you here's what I'm devoting my downtime this weekend to…
Reading:
Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists. The latest from Bill Kauffman. We've lined up a very apt reviewer for TAC, and [...]
Ron Paul on what David Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights really means:
Instead of fostering open dialogue and wide-raging intellectual inquiry, the main effect of the [...]
The Washington Post looks in on the antiwar Democratic Senate campaigns in Virginia and Maryland.
Ryan Lizza of the New Republic takes a whack at Sen. George Allen, who, we discover, liked the Confederate flag in high school (even though he's a Yankee, which makes a difference) and hung a noose from a tree outside his law office as part of a Western memorabilia display. And he wears cowboy [...]
"Scholars Discover 23 Blank Pages That May Well Be Lost Samuel Beckett Play."
Actually, I'm appreciative, if skeptical, of Beckett. The Times (of London) offers this take on the Godot playwright.
Michiko Kakutani on the lead character of the latest Roth barbiturate, Everyman:
The problem is, this nameless fellow turns out to be generic, rather than universal: a faceless cutout of a figure who feels like a composite assembled from bits and pieces of earlier Roth characters…
He's another one of this author's aging narcissists, increasingly isolated and [...]
From the NY Times obit:
Ms. Jacobs['] … "The Economy of Cities" (Random House, 1969), challenged the ideas that cities were established on a rural economic base; rather, she suggested, rural economies have been built directly through city economies. After that came "The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle for Sovereignty" (Random House, 1980). It [...]
Kevin Michael Grace relates the latest figures on religion and marriage — which again show that more politically conservative Baptist and nondenominational churches often have higher rates of divorce. He also takes a skeptical look at Catholic divorce rates, which are lower than those for most Protestants but don't take into account annulments, which [...]
What made Claude Allen, domestic policy advisor to President Bush and former deputy-sub-something-or-other at the Department of Health and Human Services (one of those departments that conservatives used to want to abolish), turn into a crook? A lengthy piece in the Washington Post yesterday ponders whether Allen snapped "after decades of operating outside the [...]