From the monthly archives:

July 2002

Sullivan’s Broken Windows — Intent

July 31, 2002

Sullivan’s Broken Windows – Intent on exposing the New York Times as the center of a giant left-wing anti-war conspiracy, Andrew Sullivan claims that the following Times paragraph is the acme of editorialization hidden as news:
Already, the federal budget deficit is expanding, meaning that the bill for a war would lead either to more [...]

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Poetry Specials — After badly

July 29, 2002

Poetry Specials – After badly insulting my philosophic, yet poetic, soul, Natalie Solent has made amends, even reprinting one of my good bad poems (I write bad poetry, but it’s good bad poetry… I may have once written a bad good poem, but it’s hard to tell). Because no one has clamored for more, I’m [...]

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Happy Birthday Uncle Milty! –

July 26, 2002

Happy Birthday Uncle Milty! – Milton Friedman turns ninety! Nice tribute by Joel Miller in Reason. More Friedman information at IHS’s LibertyGuide.com.

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AFF You! — I’ll be

July 25, 2002

AFF You! – I’ll be going to the America’s Future Foundation monthly happy hour at the 18th St Lounge this evening. I have a soft spot for AFF’s monthly event; I met my sweetheart there. Here I am (on the left) at the last one, underdressed and unshaven, as usual. (And try here (center-right) [...]

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Deconstruct This! — Somebody at

July 24, 2002

Deconstruct This! – Somebody at the Onion wasted a lot of money in college. But thank the Lord!

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How to be a Package-Dealing

July 22, 2002

How to be a Package-Dealing Theist – In a recent NRO essay, Michael Novak accuses atheists of trying to have the cake of theism, while eating it too. Novak’s analysis is such a well-distilled statement of common confusions, that it’s worthwile working through the worst of it. Novak says,
Atheism is a long-term project. It is [...]

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How to be Post-Modern –

July 17, 2002

How to be Post-Modern – Stanley Fish is giving lessons. Check out his Don’t Blame Relativism (.pdf) for a bit of a master class. Here Fish says that the essence of post-modernism is the recognition that there is no common language in which truths can be couched, grasped, and agreed upon by all. But this [...]

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Soviet Mass Murder and Never

July 16, 2002

Soviet Mass Murder and Never Saying Sorry – I’m very excited by the appearance of Martin Amis’s new book, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million. Amis addresses the question why the 20 million Soviet dead has never been considered with the same moral seriousness as the victims of the Holocaust, and why Stalinist [...]

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