God Bless Niall Ferguson! (Pretty much) It’s hard to think of anyone I have trashed so consistently and so contemptuously as Niall Ferguson, whom I once grudgingly praised with a thoroughly uncivil leer as a Thelonious Monk-loving slimeball, while also urging readers not to read his then most recent book, whose title will go unmentioned…
Tag: Elizabeth Nolan Brown
I invented this! Or I predicted it! Or, well, you know.
Okay, I didn’t “predict” this, or anything else. Or invent it. However, a few months back, I wrote a piece, Ben Smith’s latest post for the New York Times is not a column about “misinformation”. It is a column OF “misinformation”, making fun of former NYT media obeserver Ben Smith’s post, Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars,…
Matt Gaetz: Screwer or Screwee?
Is it a crime to like dames? Is it a crime to like to have a good time? With dames? Is it a crime to buy, you know, airline tickets, and hotel rooms, and dinners for a good-lookin’ dame who might be feelin’ romantic the same time as you? Is it? Well, it might be…
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, getting it so very, very wrong in so many varied ways
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, or “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” as she’s known around town, writes the “Reason Roundup” for Reason magazine’s online site each morning, covering the news that’s hot of the griddle. Usually, she’s excellent—check out last Friday’s riff on the continuing fraud of “sex trafficking”, a joint project of liberals and conservatives to throw people…
Jonathan Chait, not entirely an idiot
That seems to be the rap on Jonathan Chait’s now-notorious neo-Voltairean rap on free speech and the lack thereof in academe and on the web. Seems that Jon is fed up with the cult of victimhood that’s sweeping the nation, while the blogosphere is naturally fed up with the idea of well-paid straight white guys…
Can Republicans say “abortion”? No.
Not even in Spanish. Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown explains why.