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Category Archives: politics

Daley: He Did Stuff

I can’t decide if this unsigned op-ed is damning Daley with faint praise or simply damning him. Best line: Mr. Daley is a mayor who gets an idea in his head and makes it happen… Yeah, he did that all right.

My Theory of Why I Write Fewer Blog Posts These Days

George W. Bush stopped being president.

Ross Douthat

I don’t know enough about Ross Douthat to decide if he’s just another slippery young neocon or a potential Garry Wills, unafraid to question his ideology and himself in the face of reason. Still, he crafted an interesting turn of phrase this morning. He critiqued Rand Paul for being a paleoconservative rather than a more […]