Reposted from the Cardus After Hours blog (RIP).   This article on Frog Design’s website (Slow Innovation: good ideas take a long time to perfect) is a good reminder for those of us who have a penchant for raging against … Continue reading →

Matthew Milliner and I were both in attendance at the Kuyper Center’s Calvinism and Culture conference last month, and at his blog, Matt reflects on Gordon Graham’s lecture on the impossibility of engaging culture in abstracto—though some of us persist … Continue reading →

Fareed Zakaria has long argued that it is not so much that the West is in decline, as that the Rest are in extraordinary ascent. His argument in The Post-American World is essentially that the West has not failed, but … Continue reading →

Well, are we in decline or not? The question of whether the West is past its prime is suddenly all the rage among the chattering classes. It’s gone so far as to make it into high-level meetings between the leaders … Continue reading →

Last evening, I watched a few segments of Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word on MSNBC. I don’t recall having watched O’Donnell before but I chanced upon his interview with Michael Moore and stayed. Moore was in the midst of giving … Continue reading →

One of several reasons I left the news business after more than 25 years was disenchantment gusting to disgust at its programmatic nature. The owners I worked for were programmatic idiots, of course. With the rare exception of Conrad Black, … Continue reading →

Over the past several days I’ve been attending the gathering of the Canadian Political Science Association, notable for its unnatural bridging of policy nerds and political wonks in one place in space/time. Few things unite this disparate group other than … Continue reading →

Reposted from the Cardus After Hours blog (RIP).   The very term “public intellectual” loudly proclaims a proclivity for pride and arrogance. Knowing something that you believe others do not know is fertile soil for a sordid array of grandiose … Continue reading →

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is hosting a three-day conference in Washington this week entitled “The Secretary’s Global Diaspora Forum.” While the term diaspora has its roots in reference to the Jewish diaspora, today the use of the term has … Continue reading →

My wife has a gift for making me understand my own ridiculousness. She did it again this morning when I fussed because I couldn’t find parking close enough to our gym. Yes, parking. Yes, we drive to exercise. Ridiculous, if … Continue reading →