A tale of two regulatory states So, Obama’s going to release some feckless gun regulations. Unless he changes the definition of “in the business of...
Reflections on a year gone by Thus far I’ve largely tried to avoid hugely introspective posts, because I know no one wants to read what...
Once Again Trump’s Megalomania Distracts Us From Real Concerns So, in “the sky is blue” news, Trump has been shooting his mouth off again. That’s not the problem,...
Mass Murderers: Who’s Crazy And Who’s Not? I am not alone in reflexively minimizing the political and ideological connections of mass murderers when they point to...
“Afflict the comfortable” Reasonable Literary Device, Stupid Policy So, here we stand, with Chicago now on the brink of the fates of Baltimore and Ferguson (the latter...
The Problem Is Not ISIS Or Al Qaeda; It Is Militant Islam Even the most hawkish of pronouncements from the French have carefully focused on the tactical issue of defeating ISIS....
What Does “Limited Government” Actually Mean? It’s axiomatic (certainly among the august writers of Cut.Jib.Newsletter) that government is too large. Well, for those with functioning...
And now a word from Alasdair MacIntyre In light of all the chaos at Yale and Mizzou, I am called to remember what a wise professor...
Protest against Trump hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ grows NEW YORK (AP) — Pressure continued to mount on NBC to cancel Donald Trump’s guest-host appearance on this weekend’s...
The science of biopolitics Via the AoS Coblogger @JohnEkdahl we have this little bit from Ars Technica Oxytocin makes socializing more enjoyable. First...