Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
ROSS DOUTHAT: Life After The End of History. “Twenty years later, we still haven’t come to terms with the scope of our deliverance.” That’s because many of our opinion-leaders don’t regard it as deliverance at all.
Notes From D. R. (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Ross Douthat on the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Freespace (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
There will be speeches and celebrations to mark this anniversary, but not as many as the day deserves. (Barack Obama couldn’t even fit a visit to Berlin into his schedule.) By rights, the Ninth of November should be a holiday...
NeoMugwump (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Read on. Why Does Ross Douthat Hate Moderate Republicans?
Brilliant at Breakfast (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Ross Douchebag thinks that Doug Hoffman has injected "real substance" into the NY-23 campaign : If it weren’t for Doug Hoffmann, a Lake Placid accountant running on the Conservative Party line, the battle to represent New York’s 23rd Congressional District would have been a Tweedle-Dee-Tweedle-Dum affair, featuring a Republican, Dede Scozzafava, who’s arguably more...
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Dennis Dutton’s Arts & Letters Daily has a heap o’ links, and Ross Douthat has a good column. Let’s party like it’s 1989 with songs about the Berlin Wall: David Bowie: Heroes, 1977: Video / Lyrics (and here’s a terrific live version video, supposedly from a show in Berlin in 2002; it doesn’t have as much of [...]
The Mamacoke Think Tank (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
With such a substantial portion of the American public disgusted by Washington, the time is ripe for the rise of alternatives to the usual binary political process. Ross Douthat lays out the kind of benefits we’d get from having actual competition between multiple parties. Instead of one party domination, conservatives and libertarians could vie against [...]
India Uncut (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Ross Douthat, in an excellent piece in The New York Times , argues that America needs more third-party dynamism, particularly at the local level. During his argument, he writes: Imagine if California’s famously polarized legislature included several smaller parties — Libertarians, Socialists, Social Conservatives — capable of forming coalitions with either the left...
