February 2010
5 posts
Weekend Reading
“Year after year, undergraduates and M.A. students find themselves on fire to do research and to teach. Some of them burn for other things as well, and follow other paths. Some discover that their vocations are not deep enough to last out the process of testing. But many stick it out—and finish—only to find that the completed quest leads into Rats’ Alley. These are the people...
“I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study...”
– John Adams
Health and Federalism
The Corner notes that despite the White House’s comments, the Republican Health Coverage proposal has been available online for months. But there’s a big problem with it. And it lies with the states. Stepping back, while Republicans have asserted—for a long time—that they’ve had a usable plan of their own on the table, there is not a single mention in their proposal regarding...
“Whoever attends a performance of [Beethoven’s] Ninth Symphony and then...”
– Loos