Rather interesting piece in the Guardian on the phenomenon taking off in the UK (and here, as the DVD shelves in the big stores attest) of watching television in the form of DVD box sets rather than episodic broadcasts. I’m probably obsessive-compulsive enough to fall into that kind of habit, but I haven’t yet: I’m [...]
Wired has some advice for fixing the leaky RFID in passports issued by the U.S. State Department after Jan. 1.
I really wish I had replaced my passport this year, so I could avoid the RFID peril for a decade, by which time maybe they’ll have moved on to the next privacy-invasion scheme instead. As it [...]
Henry Regnery’s Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher show a side of Austrian-born economist Joseph Schumpeter seldom seen elsewhere:
At an early lecture he gave us a reading list, with the remark, “If one of our professors at the University of Vienna, Bohm-Bawerk, for example, had given us a reading list, we would have thrown it back [...]
Former Virginia gov and RNC chief Jim Gilmore is thinking about running for the Republican nomination in ‘08. He’s best known for abolishing cutting the car tax, which is something. But who can take seriously someone whose Iraq policy sounds like this:
He did say he would not support an increase in troop strength [...]
…take a look at some of the things the Mises Institute has been putting on-line: not just his better known works (Memoirs of a Superfluous Man; Our Enemy, the State) but also some hard-to-find volumes, including The Book of Journeyman, a collection of many of his short pieces for the New Freeman. I set [...]
EnterStageRight’s Bernard Chapin interviews my old colleague Jim Antle.
Sam Tanenhaus of the New York Times Book Review answers readers’ questions. As a literary editor at TAC, I didn’t worry aobut whether we were reviewing enough nonfiction by women (why doesn’t Tanenhaus simply point out that much more nonfiction is written by men anyway, which at least seems to be the case), but otherwise [...]
A friend brings to my notice this piece (originally from the Wanderer) which comments on my “GOP and Man at Yale” article from a few months back. It’s a fair piece, but it misses an important point: the difference between talk-radio conservatism and the political philosophies of a Kirk or a Weaver is not [...]
A week or two back I was asked if I knew where to find an on-line copy of Russell Kirk’s 1991 Heritage Foundation talk in which he more or less directly called the first Gulf War a war for oil. Well, it turns out that Wes McDonald has put it up here. It’s worth [...]
That seems to be Ramesh Ponnuru’s advice to social conservatives concerning Mitt Romney. My former colleague Jim Antle begs to differ.
There was a time — a long time ago now — when even movement conservatives were willing to hold off on throwing their support behind a candidate like Romney; when they would try very hard [...]