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Sort of the theme song here at alicublog. •    It's like Jonah Goldberg is actually trying to live down to the role in intellec...

I love Jerry Seinfeld, but if the kids don't dig him anymore , maybe it's political correctness, maybe it's not, so what? The hi...

Pretty much everyone has noticed that violent mass events starring white people get handled differently in the press from violent mass even...

A Duke professor wrote comments on a New York Times editorial that got negative attention . Sample: So where are the editorials that say ...

You may have noticed the snit libertarians had over "vagina voters" who weren't giving us menfolk a chance at the presidency ...

As you may expect in the wake of the Baltimore riots, on the right it's all ooga-booga all the time. The Mayor of Baltimore said that i...

I've been saying that the essence of libertarianism is the elevation of "them that has, gets" to the level of holy gospel, and...

Some of the libertarians are getting very worked up over this Indiana thing. Makes sense; after all, the real issue behind all the cake-and-...

Song's been going through my mind for some reason. Weep, sad freaks of a nation. •     I guess 2012 was the last year I paid att...

At The Federalist, Georgi Boorman gives us the usual rightwing schtick about ISIS (i.e., Obama's a pussy let's get our war on): D...

Tom T. Hall sure writes a lot of songs about musicians. This one really needs an uptempo rock cover. •      Stephen F. Hayes of Bill...

Over and over  and over again I have to remind people that the conservatarian enlightenment on police power and civil rights --which starr...

For a second, in the right light, it looks as if Megan McArdle may have achieved self-awareness: This is a question I’ve asked myself bef...

You read Bob Dylan's great MusiCares speech , right? Remember the part where he talks about the grand tradition of folk and blues and ho...

At National Review, Heather Mac Donald  tells the story of de Blasio and the cops . It's full of grafs like the following, about de Bla...

At libertarian flagship Reason , Scott Shackford : In this politicized fight between the contents of hundreds of thousands of pages of rep...

One of the guys stepping up to defend America's recently revealed torture is Max Boot .  Like his fellow pain freak  Andrew C. McCarthy ...

Mad about the Eric Garner verdict ? Think it's another case of cops killing a black man with impunity? Ole Perfesser Glenn Reynolds wan...

Last week I mentioned the  spate of  conservative complaints about Emma Watson's very measured feminist speech at the U.N., which appar...

Since that Robert Tracinski column about Ayn Rand's heroes looking for love I've been checking out his venue, The Federalist, and ...