The Tory Anarchist

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Unemployment has remained reasonably low during the Bush era, but take a look at these statistics from the July Harper’s Index:
Estimated change since 2001 in the total number of U.S. private-sector jobs: +1,900,000
Estimated number of new private-sector jobs creaetd by government spending during that time: 2,800,000

I finally got around to sending in to LRC my article spinning off of the George Nash talk I attended early last week. Here it is: The Authoritarian Movement.

Laurence Vance quotes wise words from Thomas Fleming in the new issue of Chronicles. It’s worth mentioning that the context of Fleming’s remarks is two letters attempting to take him to task for saying that the federal government should butt out of the Terri Schiavo affair. One of the correspondents says that he was similarly [...]

“Chinese, English Spakers Do Math Differently.” A vindication of polylogism? Not exactly, but interesting nonetheless.

The Senate is proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit blasphemy — that is, flag-burning, blasphemy against the one true all-American faith, “our nation and its values.” The Washington Post reports:
Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) cast the debate in loftier terms. “Many Americans have come to see the flag as a sacred symbol of our nation [...]

Edwin Yoder reviews Gordon Wood's Revolutionary Characters in the summer books issue of The Weekly Standard. The piece gets at some of the elegiac qualities of Wood's book (which I highly recommend):
There is a note of sadness here, for Wood seems to believe that our present political habits would appall his gentlemen revolutionists. In their [...]

Defender of hypocrisy Jeremy Lott — no, no, that's not an insult, his book is called In Defense of Hypocrisy — has a new blog here. In the fullness of time, I'll review the book for TAC; in the meantime, get a taste of what Lott is cooking from his interview with Nick Gillespie.

I hope Eve Fairbanks got hazard pay for researching her New Republic article on conservative dating services. She's uncovered some sociological data that confirm just how culturally schizophrenic the Bush base is — or at least the narrow part of it that uses dating services:
The women on ConservativeMatch–at least the women of Washington, Virginia–are both [...]

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel makes one, though I remain skeptical about his proposed greatness. As Hummel points out, his lapses aren't inconsiderable.