Month: December 2006

With Open Heart and Extended Hand

Americans, we are told, are most generous people.  We give to one another in many ways. Perhaps the most important donations we make are in our loving and kindly interactions with others each day of the year, our lending of...

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Open Thread

I’ve discovered the one thing the cable news is really good at. They’re fantastic at making dead men look really, really good. I mean, it’s almost like you could pardon Nixon after he ordered the Brookings...

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Watching Ivy-Leaguers Fight

I really do have a soft spot for intramural spitting contests among Republican intellectuals. It reminds me a lot of the stuffy air in Nassau Inn’s Yankee Doodle Tap Room, with its black and white photos of alumni like...

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