Taki's Daily Blog

Taki, Spencer, Zmirak, Raimondo, Larison, Gottfried and more...
Evan McLaren

The Rise of Ron Paul Republicans

Posted by Evan McLaren on February 19, 2008

Two weeks ago Murray Sabrin announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Sabrin is a business professor at Ramapo College and a high profile fixture among right-wing super-libertarians, having moonlighted at their outfits—FEE, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, LewRockwell.com, and so on. He’s run for office in New Jersey in the past, once already for the Senate in … [Read More]

Evan McLaren

Mike Huckabee’s Social Democracy

Posted by Evan McLaren on January 22, 2008

Sensitized students on my campus have been complaining about Mike Huckabee’s recent remarks on the topics of gay marriage and the Christian character of the Constitution. By way of overtures to populist evangelicals whose votes he sorely needed in South Carolina, Huckabee has affirmed his support of a marriage amendment and vaguely suggested that the Constitution out to be amended to … [Read More]

Evan McLaren

PC Ditto Heads

Posted by Evan McLaren on January 16, 2008

In November, I heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hold forth before a full auditorium at Kenyon College. RFK Jr. appears to rank second only to Al Gore in rabid environmentalist enthusiasm. It was he who last summer iterated what all of us knew already: that those who disagree with the environmental lobby on the topic of global warming are “traitors” who … [Read More]

Page 1 of 1 pages