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The Devolution of the University’s Common Reading 27 Aug 2013 | 03:35 pm
Hundreds of colleges and universities assign a “common reading” book to their students every summer – often for incoming or honors students, sometimes for the entire student body. They are usually mea...
Congress Should Veto Obama’s War 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
“Congress doesn’t have a whole lot of core responsibilities,” said Barack Obama last week in an astonishing remark. For in the Constitution, Congress appears as the first branch of government. And am...
The Future of Middle Class Jobs Under the Tech Regime 26 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
Technology has exploded through the American economy over the past thirty years, bringing automation through computers and robots to scores of professions that previously required a heavy “human touch...
Maybe Kevin Williamson Wants to Rebuild a Republican Big Tent 26 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
edenpictures / Flickr.com Several critics of Kevin Williamson’s 2012 piece celebrating the Republican party’s record on civil rights charged that Williamson had conflated “Republican” and “conservati...
A Vintage Coping: How Wine Fosters Hope in War 24 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
When reading about war zones, it is easy to envision an endless battlefield, with uninterrupted explosions and turmoil. But Atlantic writer Cathy Huyghe pointed out Friday that, even in the midst of S...
Tales of Jim Toole’s Tiny Bookstore 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
There’s a little bookstore on C Street in Washington, D.C., with a slightly tattered window awning and dimly lit windows. On first glance, it looks quite gloomy. But then you step inside. Immediately...
Chas Freeman on Why the Kerry Initiative Will Fail 23 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Lost in the chaos of Egypt and horror of Syria is the ever present Israel-Palestine question, now being dealt with by John Kerry’s initiative for Israeli-Palestinian Authority talks. Of course a fair ...
The New Economy Hasn’t Helped the Working Class 22 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
Pete Spiliakos writes of the plight of low-skill American labor over at First Things this morning. He notes that while the economy is humming along for the college educated, who possess a scant 3.8 pe...
In the Hour of Chaos: The Grim Parables of Charles Johnson 22 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Somebody–I hope a commenter will remind me who it was–has suggested that the Left typically thinks in terms of an opposition between oppression and liberation, whereas the right typically thinks in te...
The Demise of August 21 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
David M. Shribman accused Americans of ruining August on Monday, through their cacophony of work, school and frantic scheduling. He remembers when August was “an idyll of idleness, a time of pure ease...
