His Haughtiness
David Brooks, the aggressively moderate swell who writes aggressively moderate columns for The New York Times, is seldom so entertaining as when he gets haughty. It affronts him when people of…
Damon Linker is Concerned About the Height of Young People’s Happiness (Sigh)
Why do it do this to myself? Why do I read The Week. I know Damon Linker's there. I already think of him as a gasbag and a twit. Nobody's paying me…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
--I'm neutral to the (deleted) scene of Castle Dracula's collapse at the end of Dracula. The book ends acceptably enough as it stands. (The reason Stoker gave for cutting it was he…
The Missing Liberal Canon
A Slate article by Beverly Gage with the unfortunate headline "Why Is There No Liberal Ayn Rand?" crossed my sight earlier today, inspiring the question "Why should anyone wish for…