Opinion & Essay
Confessions of a reality-based conservative
You’ve probably never heard of Bruce Bartlett, but by the end of this post you’ll know plenty. A prominent conservative who w ...
13 years ago
Pull up a chair, and let Baer tell you how it is
Every December, there’s this strange event in New York City called the Pennsylvania Society weekend, in which a few hundred of the ...
13 years ago
Fox News can’t handle the truth
Thomas Ricks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning military journalist, won’t be invited back to Fox News any time soon. Not after his appear ...
13 years ago
Thanksgiving reminded me that proximity to family trumps leaving for the burbs
On Thanksgiving, I shuttled between my in-laws’ large gathering and the intimate dinner at my aunt’s house. In doing so ...
13 years ago
Some notes to self on turning 60
First, stop compulsively dropping into every conversation that you have just turned 60, and then waiting for the other person to exclaim, ...
13 years ago
Is a high court power struggle at work in the Traffic Court Scandal?
There are so many things that are fascinating about the report issued last week on ticket-fixing at Philadelphia Traffic Court that the f ...
13 years ago
A brief stay in Israel outside of the rockets’ range
While most teenagers my age started their normal school year in September, 50 of my peers and I had already started school thousands of m ...
13 years ago
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