The years of hope?

Richard asks:When in the past 25 years has the Republican Party ever made a

A lot of who you are is in your genes

A few years ago John Derbyshire made a comment in The Corner which referenced Judith

Left tactics for Right ends

My friend Heather Mac Donald has a long post, The Right plays the race card, over at

The limits of cynicism

Am the only one who has reached the end of the line in terms of complacency about the

A bourgeois future?

A follow up to Richard’s post where he references the film Idiocracy, I though I’d

Dogs are like babies

A few months ago I noted the peculiarities of domestic dog cognition, especially their

The Blank Slate Of Youth

In the early part of this decade Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate took the country by

New England Republicans & Southern Democrats

One of the truisms of politics seems to be that what is “Republican” or “conservative”

A solution to the national debt

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The Untouchables

Michael Lewis has written a parody article from a putative Goldmanite. Here’s a

The rise of feminine beauty

Women are more beautiful, declares the headline in Times Online:The researchers have

Tissue specific gene expression

I hate to be the one to tell Robert Stacy McCain, but the fact that he points to really

Evolved to be animal lovers?

Follow up to my post about domestic dogs’ ability to relate to human beings, it turns

Moral atoms

Below Patrick Ford points to a reasoned argument in regards to the rights of animals.

A dog’s world

Richard pointed me to a new study which suggests that domestic dogs exhibit an ability

America Abroad

I recently read something which conflated neoconservative foreign policy views with

Control locally!

In Australian Outback, Efforts to Restrict Alcohol: Since Halls Creek recently became

The Sarah Palin show ends with a twist?

Well, since she’s resigning as governor of Alaska, perhaps she could relocate to South

Breaking up is hard to do….

Heather Mac Donald expresses some frustration at Mark Sanford’s antics the past week.

The genetics of history & Thomas Jefferson

Kevin Gutzman alludes to genetic evidence pointing to a strong likelihood that Thomas

There goes that

Well, going to Argentina without telling anyone is a bit weird. A politician having an

South Carolina owns Mark Sanford, lock, stock & barrel

Mark Sanford went hiking without telling the powers that be. It seems that a public

Empire as if it didn’t exist

I recently read The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914, a cultural history somewhat in the

Reformed or not, does it matter for politics?

I found Dr. Grant Havers’ rumination on the relationship between paleoconservatism and

In praise of the falsity of Freud

To the scientifically trained my experience is that Freud, along with Marx, is the

The politics of science

Bryan Caplan observes of Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications: In most

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