QotD: Wartime failures of the peacetime army
Military operations are, arguably, especially mistake-prone, because militaries aren’t like other organizations. A normal bureaucracy has a job, and it does that job all the time. Militaries, on the...
View ArticleThe “low-information voter”
At The Gods of the Copybook Headings, Richard Anderson charts the sad decline of Michael Chong (whose brave attempt to reform our political system has been thoroughly neutered by the powers-that-be),...
View ArticleEveryday life in “The Ghetto Archipelago”
At Reason, J.D. Tuccille reviews On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by Alice Goffman: The police presence in 6th Street is pervasive. Residents, young black men in particular, can expect to...
View ArticleI still say Galaxy Quest was the best Star Trek movie
… and now here’s Kathy Shaidle saying the same thing: “By Grabthar’s Hammer…” but also “It’s real.” And when they torture the little alien. Oh, man. I’m tearing up just typing that. If Star Wars had...
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Fran Tarkenton on the NFL’s long-standing drug problems
In an interview with Jenny Vrentas, former Viking great Fran Tarkenton discusses this year’s crop of rookie quarterbacks (including the Vikings’ Teddy Bridgewater), the NFL’s ongoing disciplinary...
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