Campaign Finance Regulation: Freedom for Me and Not for Thee
In a recent column Dahlia Lithwick first mourns the likelihood that Steve Colbert’s new gig on the Late Show will lead him to give up his crusade for campaign finance reform. She then bemoans the...
View ArticleThe New Old Nobility
Aristocrats in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries held tradesmen in contempt. Although aristocrats recognized that businessmen (and they were almost entirely men) provided a few useful services,...
View ArticleAmerica’s Class Divide: Scribes v. Producers
The most comprehensive study of the ideology in the legal profession ever has just been published. It confirms what most people have already intuited: lawyers as a whole lean strongly to the left....
View ArticleWhy Campaign Finance “Reform” Would Make Politics More Like Academia
The Republican debate on CNBC confirms that campaign finance reform would boost the progressive agenda, because it shows the depth of bias in the free media. The questions of reporters–even those who...
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Politico’s Lame Hair-Splitting about the Liberal Media
’ H.L. Mencken, one of the great journalists of the 20th century, once said that “Half the sorrows of the world, I suppose, are caused by making false assumptions.” Look no further than a recent...
View ArticleNPR: Losing Reason, Abandoning Journalism
National Public Radio is being justifiably lampooned for changing its ethical guidelines to allow its journalists to become activists. NPR’s guidelines on impartiality now allow reporters to express...
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