[Editor’s note: see also rounds 1-4 of Takimag’s increasingly acrimonious debate on originalism, interpretation, and whether the Constitution actually means anything at all. Austin Bramwell, “Original Sins”; Kevin R. C. ...
I’m sorry, but Kevin Gutzman is still totally wrong about the Constitution. His response to my article sends up a flurry of errors and misconceptions but leaves my critique of his work not only undisturbed but unaddressed. I am glad to set him ...
I"m sorry, but Kevin Gutzman is totally wrong about the Constitution. In his books and many online articles, Gutzman argues that the Constitution grants the Federal government a handful of limited powers, but leaves the states free to govern as ...
Has Franz Rosenzweig’s time come? Beats me. Let’s start with: who the hell was Franz Rosenzweig? Like many, I would never have heard of him had it not been for sometime Takimag contributor David P. Goldman, who for the past decade has ...
On Wednesday, Taki’s Magazine ran a series of articles from "National Disgrace Online," a satirical counterpart to National Review Online. An amusing conceit"but the critique underlying the satire falls short. Take the mock ...
Well, Ross Douthat got to the top of the greasy pole about as briskly as if it were a step ladder. Just eight years ago, I met him in his college dormroom, where he ran a weekly symposium for campus right-wingers. Now 29 years old, he’s a New ...
Call me slow, but I think have finally understood one of the most puzzling claims of terror warriors, namely, that the crucial difference between them and their liberal opponents is that the latter believe that hunger and poverty cause terrorism. As ...
I grew up accustomed to bull markets and rising prosperity. Now I’d like to know whether they will ever resume. It would be nice if libertarianism"a family of ideologies with which I have a great tell of sympathy"could tell us the ...
President Bush recently had perhaps his last sit-down as president with friendly movement conservative journalists (see accounts here and here) Nothing said then or in reaction since will change anyone’s mind about the man (my own ...
In honor of the 2008-09 North American ski season, I give you the following rant. As of March 18, 2008, Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico, Alta and Deer Valley in Utah, and Mad River Glen in Vermont were the last skiers-only resorts in North America. ...
National Review"s institutional strength destroys any hope for an alternative "right." NR may be mediocre but, as argued, it will always be the leading conservative magazine in America for the foreseeable future. "Conservatism," ...
