Downton Abbey, the Masterpiece franchise about life at a stately British manor, began with the sinking of the Titanic; its recently-concluded second season took on the Great War and the influenza outbreak. It’s a series about people unaccustomed to change suddenly dealing with staggering new technological and sociological realities, those who have long enjoyed a Read More
The new issue of World Affairs ("A Journal of Ideas and Debate") features a short travelogue by P. J. O’Rourke called The Cleveland of Asia: A Journey Through China’s Rust Belt. In 2006, Mr. O’Rourke, a Cato Institute fellow and Atlantic correspondent, spent a month in China, visiting factories, Xi’an’s famous Read More
George Pataki gets a D from the conservatives at the Cato Institute.
Chuck Schumer raised more money for Senate Democrats than his Republican counterpart.
The New York Magazine blog isn’t impressed with the senate debate in Connecticut.
John Faso plays against form by agreeing with Mike Bloomberg Read More
Leon Hadar of Cato Institute says that he has been openly critical of American policy vis-a-vis Israel. He cited his book Sandstorm, which I will get, so I can improve myself. Though I am keeping open my challenge re the major thinktanks in D.C.: How many thinkers do they employ who see Israel’s Read More
Ken Langone is set formally to launch his crusade against Eliot Spitzer at a speech to the Cato Institute today, Reuters reports.
Not exactly helpful to Spitzer, as Langone can presumably raise quite a bit of money for Tom Suozzi, creating a real primary.
On the other hand, the image of enraged, stymied Read More
