Author Archives: alsanblog

It’s hard to figure how liberals can criticize the foreign policy experience of anyone in view of the foreign policy background of Obama/Biden. Jonathan Bernstein admits that Obama had little foreign policy experience in 2008, and since then, his record as president has been no … Continue reading →

So Washington Post sportswriter Mike Wise recounts how he and some other sports writers choked up and wept after hearing the story of Tahmina Kohistani, the female sprinter from Afghanistan. They admire her courage in overcoming the misogynists in her country to participate in the Olympics, but these liberals can’t seem … Continue reading →

Matthew Yglesias is incoherent when he claims that Ryan’s selection as VP means we’ll ignore the biggest issue of the campaign (i.e., the terrible economic performance since 2009). At one point, he claims that politicians “will still talk about this,” but … Continue reading →

Slate writer Marcelle Friedman proclaims that “justice prevails” as the International Judo Federation agreed to allow a Saudi Arabian female athlete to compete in the Olympics while wearing a headscarf. A better description would have been “misogyny prevails.” If Friedman and Slate had been … Continue reading →

Fareed Zakaria takes offense to Romney’s recent comment about culture making the difference in a country’s economic vitality. Zakaria claims that China, Japan, and India, whose economies had been stagnant for centuries, “miraculously” took off not because of any change in these countries’ cultures, but because … Continue reading →

A reader of the Washington Post recently took offense at the use of the term “authoritarian” when referring to Hugo Chavez and his imitators in Latin America.  Much better, in the opinion of the reader, to call Chavez a “radical, majoritarian democrat” who is only looking … Continue reading →

The government indeed causes a lot of problems, but contrary to Matthew Yglesias’s implication, most everyone would agree that government is beneficial.  Even Friedrich Hayek himself rejected a laissez-faire approach to the economy, believing instead that government is necessary to create … Continue reading →