Unqualified Offerings

Matthew Yglesias explains the deep coherence of Ron Paul’s appropriation of Guy Fawkes Day:
Also: He managed to raise a lot of money, which was the point of the exercise, so it definitely makes sense on that level.
Just so.

By Thoreau
Tonight I get onto a plane to DC.  I’ll be at a conference in College Park for a few days, so blogging will be intermittent.  I wish I had time to see some of the DC UO crew, but between professional obligations and some family stuff my schedule is already packed solid.  And somewhere [...]

In Justin Logan’s imprecation against argumentum ad hitlerum, I think there’s one sentence I disagree with:
It is particularly bizarre that those who view American power as having an almost magical ability to transform the world also believe that any number of two-bit dictators measure up to the threat posed by Hitler.
The conjunction of these beliefs [...]

By Thoreau
I have a question for the people who advocate electing more and better Democrats, and I promise it isn’t a “gotcha!” question.
Let me start by acknowledging that if enough Democrats were elected, and if enough of them ACTUALLY supported civil liberties and non-interventionism, then of course things would change.  The question is whether that [...]