Topic: James Poulos

The Root Of Our Fiscal Woes

Over at Ricochet, the always insightful James Poulos attempts to diagnose the pathology that's driving America toward fiscal insolvency: Bill Clinton was smart enough to know that government can feel your pain for free; the hard facts of the Obama era ...

Do we need another hero?

I've decided not to comment on Obama's oil spill speech, because I haven't been able to figure out how to appraise it without slip-sliding into a political analysis, and I don't want to do that on this blog ...
Now it might cost up to $1 trillion to rescue Fannie and Freddie, in what one insider calls " how imaginary is the value of this unimaginable amount of money?

Top 11 Holiday Libations

Your bottle is a wonderland.Top 11 Holiday Libations Your bottle is a wonderland. We all know Earl Grey, the popular tea that tastes like the sunless part of an English garden. Lady Grey is his lightly citrused better half the best-tasting ...

TechNo! / TechYes! -- Lost and Found

Getting by in a GPS world.TechNo! By Peter Suderman and James Poulos, September 29, 2008 Some long to upload their consciousnesses onto the Internet. , where Culture11 editors Peter Suderman and James Poulos debate the virtues and vices of the latest technology ...

The Hip Shall Inherit the Earth

My post-apocalyptic vision of America?s future.The Hip Shall Inherit the Earth My post-apocalyptic vision of Americas future. By James Poulos, September 23, 2008 My favorite post-apocalyptic vision is zombies. What's more, they're part of a generation in which ...

WFB's passing glory

K-Lo sees continuity between Bill Buckley's passing and Jonah Goldberg's " James Poulos, though, sees this sort of thing as evidence of decline. 'We' are not producing tremendous storehouses of wit, because 'we' are not producing intellectual aristocrats as we once ...

Blogging conservatism's future

Three of the best bloggers around -- Ross Douthat, James Poulos and Daniel Larison -- spoke at CPAC yesterday. And all, in different ways, issued calls for moderation that seemed incongruous in the halls of the Omni Shoreham. Mr Poulos, meanwhile, surveyed the diverse ...

J-Pou no like da Huck

Huckabee is the only GOP candidate anybody can seem to muster much passion over right now. James Poulos -- who is always a smart read, even if he didn't invite me to his Christmas cocktail party and make me a Manhattan -- explains ...

Paglia: Secularism kills culture

As an atheist, I wasn't offended by Romney's omission of nonbelievers from his narrative of American history. Europe, which has settled into a comfortable secularism, is no model for the future. Europe is becoming a museum and tourist trap, as ...