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Tomorrow, Los Angeles voters go to the polls to elect a new Mayor. (At least a few of them, anyway: current estimates predict onyl 25% turnout, about which more later). In September, New Yorkers will do the same. And depending upon the way things turn out, political and cultural reporters could have a field day. [...]
Archive for the ‘Politics and Leadership’ Category
May 20th, 2013
April 13th, 2013
Category: Politics and Leadership
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who [...]
April 8th, 2013
Category: Britain, Politics and Leadership
As God once said, and I think rightly… -Margaret Thatcher My other thoughts on the Iron Lady here and here.
February 25th, 2013
Musings about laughter and politics from the fireside on a London evening just parky enough to keep me indoors. A vivid political memory: I am listening to an erudite speech by a highly distinguished, venerated member of the U.K. House of Lords. His weighty topic, thoughtfully engaged from a Christian perspective, is the role of [...]
February 20th, 2013
David Hume on Wat Tyler’s rebellion.
February 17th, 2013
Category: Policy Analysis, Politics and Leadership
Hume on not fighting on the wrong ground.
February 13th, 2013
Category: Politics and Leadership
Politicians crave being the one who “gets to” respond to the state of the union address. Yet Rubio is one of a series of people who came out minimized (see also Jindal, Bobby). Even when they are delivered competently (see Daniels, Mitch), they are swiftly forgotten. Yet no one seems able to resist the siren [...]
February 10th, 2013
Category: Politics and Leadership
At one of those Washington parties where unimportant people mix with important ones and ask them annoying questions, I decided to ask Senator John Warner why he had recently decided to retire. Before I could open my mouth, he shocked me by seeking my advice: “Have you been able to find the can in this [...]
December 21st, 2012
Category: MSM (mainstream media), Politics and Leadership
Annie Lowrey laments that the budget lines that are big are the ones people want to spare from cuts, and the ones they want to cut don’t make up much of the budget. But the big counterexample–from her own chart–goes unmentioned.