The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Michael Turyn:

I think some of the Republican leaders have been attending Putin's "Dealing with Uppity Billionaires" seminars (3 p.m. Sundays, Moscow Airport Marriott, the Birobidzhan Function Room, $3million cash, or Mafiya or arms-dealer ties.)

Now, I don't know that G.W.B. thinks Soros stole his name....

The question begged would seem to be something like, "Is it possible to construct an argument that convinces the gut without offending the brain?"

I'm concerned that I like "Fahrenheit 9-11" the way a Straussian likes religion. I'm also concerned that if we accept the legitimacy of this sort of battle, we will lose to the other side, which I believe to be constitutionally (by virtue of their acceptance of Total Depravity, and so feel no resistance to assuming the populace gullible and deserving of it) and by long habit (they've had Nixon, Chotiner, Phillips, Atwater, Rove, we've had Carville) better suited to it.

Does Newton's Wake have much to do with Blake or Joyce? (or boating?)

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