An elegant piece by James Taranto over at WSJ looking at arguments that libertarian-minded solutions to the supposed problem of ‘soaring inequality’ may do more harm than good, and that conservatives just don’t get what ‘public’ issues really are: Further, even the idea that equality of income is just flies […]
Two more superb American articles about Egypt. One by Adam Garfinkle looms at the very big picture and has some mightily wise words to say on the logic of political change: We can see in past developments leading to liberal democracy the dialectical relationships among technological changes, social mobilization, economic […]
My new piece for The Commentator: The main reason why I think it’s almost better for Western governments to say as little as possible in these grim circumstances rather than make loud statements of condemnation is that words without action look ‘weak’. Any statements made are mainly for domestic and […]
Instapundit is 12 today. He helped create and define the very idea of ‘blogging’. Which in part is why you are reading this. This sort of unflagging effort takes incredible diligence and generosity. Many of Glenn Reynolds’ posts are little more than a link to something of interest (usually to […]
It’s pretty obvious that the ill-fated Russia re-set button produced before a bemused Sergey Lavrov by an excited Hillary Clinton back in 2009 is now sitting prominently in the Russian Foreign Ministry’s famed Museum of Diplomatic Curiosities, an exhibit put there for young diplomats to show them how not to […]
Another day, another attempt to broker a deal betwen Israel and the Palestine Authority, this time with John Kerry leading the charge. Who knows, maybe this one will get somewhere. Perhaps the generalised shambles in Egypt and across the Middle East will create a sense that if there has to […]
Wow. Here is a really sharp dissecting by Martin Continetti of President Obama’s recent conversation with the New York Times: My favorite moment is when the president mentions someone he’s been talking to. “I had a conversation a couple of weeks back with Robert Putnam,” Obama says, “who I’ve known […]
Here is another article fretting feebly over the fact that the European Union is ‘punching below its weight’ in global negotiations: Although the EU is a minority bloc within the General Assembly and Human Rights Council (HRC), its power resources could in principle be wielded to help the EU gain […]
Here is my latest Commentator piece about what the Zimmerman case tells us about self-defence laws here in the UK. Namely nothing at all: A desperate piece in the New Statesman by Jacob Turner strains every sinew to link the Zimmerman case in the USA with the UK’s self-defence laws: […]
My latest piece at Punditwire: In short, President Obama’s general observations about how the United States might tackle lingering discrimination and prejudice made sense. But the fact that he linked his remarks in such a personal way to the Trayvon Martin case – of all possible cases out there across […]
