Author: BooMan

I generally am bored by essays about the secularization of America, particularly when they argue that secularization will lead to a dystopian future in which the United States resembles Sweden. I’ve never been to Sweden,...

American political parties are vessels. They can take on passengers and they can discharge them. There is no necessary reason why conservatives should be Republicans. Nor is there any necessary reason that environmentalists...

Who are the people who don’t watch MSNBC until the prison documentaries come on? Political considerations aside, Fox executives mostly laugh at MSNBC and its dreams of cable news domination. In 2011, Fox News had profits...

My impression from reading this is that the unbearable burden of being Fred Hiatt has reached the point where Fred Hiatt can barely endure having to be Fred Hiatt, but since his job depends on being Fred Hiatt, Fred Hiatt he...

Make sure to read the excellent article in the Boston Globe by Michael Kranish on the failure of the Senate to ratify The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on December 4th, 2012. John McCain says it was the...