The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

The University of Instapundit

Reflecting on grade inflation at law schools, Fisherville Mike reckons that he should qualify for a juris doctor through daily reading of Professor Glenn Reynolds. And when your blog gets linked at Instapundit, that’s like becoming editor of the university law review.

Apology to a Princetonian

In punk-smacking young Isia Jasiewicz the other day, I evidently touched the pride of one of Jasiewicz’s fellow Princeton alumni. Ben has expressed his embarassment on his own blog, and in a comment at my post: It’s pretty clear that the kid meant just to sneer at Beck — problem for her is that she […]

Glenn Beck Goes Hayekian

When I laid down to go to bed in the wee hours this morning, I flipped on Fox News and caught the re-run of Glenn Beck. He was talking about Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, and The Other Glenn informs us that the book is now No. 1 at Amazon. It’s unfortunate, really, that […]

Buckleyesque
Notes on a Rhetorical Method

“Philip’s perspective typifies the tautological nature of intellectual consensus . . .” — God and Man at The American Spectator While I was proofreading that little essay just now, Mrs. Other McCain asked me, “What are you grinning at?” She knows me too well, and recognized the mischievous smile of a man who is up to […]

14-Year-Old Anamika Veeramani Wins National Spelling Bee; Sen. Jake Knotts Could Not Be Reached for Comment

Will Folks, on the other hand . . oh, no, let’s don’t go there: No theatrical flourishes for Anamika Veeramani. She kept her hands behind her back and rattled off the letters of every word she was given — until she was crowned the spelling bee champion. The 14-year-old girl from North Royalton, Ohio, won […]

Best. Ugandan. Video. Evah!

To quote The Right Scoop, “CONTENT WARNING“!

Skepticism and Independence: Bad!

That’s the essential thrust of Mark Lilla’s lengthy essay in the New York Review of Books: [W]e need to see [the Tea Party movement] as a manifestation of deeper social and even psychological changes that the country has undergone in the past half-century. Quite apart from the movement’s effect on the balance of party power, […]

‘Dear Penthouse Forum . . .’

“A 1992 survey of 5,000 U.S. librarians, long withheld by a professional journal, found one in five respondents had engaged in sexual trysts among the stacks. Will Manly, who said the New York-based Wilson Library Bulletin withheld the results of his survey in 1992, published results recently on his Web site indicating 51 percent of […]

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