Turnout, Turnout, Turnout! Why Democrats love it and Republicans hate it. Ruy Teixeira, a Democratic political centrist after my own heart, has a post up at his Substack blog, The Liberal Patriot, How Not to Build a Coalition, arguing, correctly, in my opinion, “High turnout is just not the magic key to Democratic victories the…
Tag: George Will
Nice essay, George F. Will! But not, you know, perfect!
Hey, Georgie boy’s snappy retrospective of how a slightly pushy young lad from the sticks became the biggest goddamn Bow Tie the Beltway had ever seen—The pursuit of happiness is happiness—is not at all a bad read, informative and even touching at times, words I haven’t always used when discussing Mr. Will. I was particularly…
Political Notes from All Over
George F. Will, critical race theorist par excellance There was a time when I made a virtual albeit entirely unpaid cottage industry out of making fun of George F. Will, working up such labored funnies as Two-parent families iz da bomb, says Ramblin’ George Will, snickering at the twice married, frequently adulterous when married and…
What Is Truth, Part 2: Real Time Originalist Smackdown!
In a recent post, George F, Will and Truth, I took issue with the estimable Mr. Will over the objective existence of “Truth”, which Mr. Will averred did exist and had in fact been largely unearthed by John Locke and enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, thanks to the efforts of John Madison, while I took…
George F. Will and “Truth”
Time flies when your country is burning down, doesn’t it? The week after Donald Trump’s many fans took him seriously rather than literally—“March peaceably, folks! But stay strong! And save your country from the greatest crime in history! Only you can do it! And don’t take no for an answer!”—Mr. George F. Will, intent on…
George F. Will showing some signs of improvement. Emphasis on the “some”
Recently, I’ve slackened off making fun of George F. “the ‘F’ stands for ‘Frabjous’, son” Will, first because George has largely been a good boy, leaving the Republican Party in disgust with its abandonment of free market policies, doubling down on that disgust at the nomination of Donald Trump, and going the extra mile by…
Donald Trump, president of peace?
Amusing, not to mention welcome, if true. My bête noire di tutti bêtes noires has set the Acela world on its collective ear if not its collective rear by his sudden decision to pull all American troops out of Syria, where they never should have been in the first place. You don’t get it, Donald!…
Jonah Goldberg, not much pleased to be called an old man
“There’s always a trade-off,” announces the National Review’s Jonah Goldberg—sounding a bit, to my ears at least, like Jane Austin remarking on the marital inclinations of single men in possession of good fortunes1—“in calling attention to trollish, attention-seeking writers who don’t deserve a response on the merits.” Well, with a throat clearing like that, you…
George Will, a Conservative Who Actually Has a Conscience
I know I’m late with this, but nobility should never be ignored. George Will, whom I have almost endlessly berated in this blog for a good ten years, just hit one out of the park with a juicy little missive titled “Vote against the GOP this November”. So go read it.
Too good to be true
There’s a good deal of yammering going on these days about the “failures” of liberalism, all of it too trivial for comment, to the point that it’s almost too convenient to learn, via the Washington Post’s William Martin, on the occasion of the death of 99-year-old über evangelist/never home dad Billy Graham, that three of…