WaPo reports a bit of spin from the Romney camp:
Giuliani “is now trailing in four of the five key states that fall before Feb. 5,” Gage writes. The memo goes on to note that the average of public polls conducted in June and July show Romney leading comfortably in Iowa and New Hampshire and more [...]
The UK has just had two parliamentary by-elections, in Ealing Southall and Sedgefield. “David Cameron’s Conservatives,” as the Ealing ballot called them, came in third in both. Labour’s share of the vote was down in both places, though, and the Tories’ share was marginally up — by less than 1%.
Cameron didn’t just have his name [...]
Alan Wolfe’s second round of insults aimed at Russell Kirk irritated me enough that I had to write this counterblast, now up Taki’s Top Drawer. Check it out.
Two very different takes — mine in The American Conservative and Josef Joffe’s in the Wall-Street Journal.
Finished copies of Brian Anderson’s Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents arrived at the ISI Books offices yesterday. It’s a handsome book, if I do say so myself, and while I’m skeptical of any concept that originates with Michael Novak, I’m looking forward to seeing what Anderson has to say. His earlier South Park Conservatives wasn’t [...]
The 100th anniversary of Robert Heinlein’s birth is July 7, and already there are several excellent pieces in print and on the web commemorating the great sci-fi writer. Brian Doherty’s article in the Aug/Sept. issue of Reason is well worth a look (it’ll be on-line eventually, but why wait? You won’t want to miss [...]