"What sort of people were these? What were they talking about? What office did they belong to? K. was living in a free country, after all..."

"... everywhere was at peace, all laws were decent and were upheld, who was it who dared accost him in his own home?" A Kafka quot...

Why "You Didn’t Build That" won't go away: Obama "went after bourgeois dignity."

Virginia Postrel explains: “Bourgeois Dignity” is both the title of a recent book by the economic historian Deirdre N. McCloskey and, she a...

The Rush Limbaugh show is on in a few minutes. I'm live-blogging it.

11:06 CT: "I knew it was getting bad..." He got a busy signal trying to call himself to cancel his own advertising for his Two If ...

"There's no reason for it to exist in English..."

... this "sort of book," by a Frenchman, Bernard-Henri Lévy, who did some traveling in America and then "worked up his notes,...

A "vast and sterile desert" growing "astonishingly idiotic" men.

Think we have a problem with the French? They 've been hating us for a long time. But what about Tocqueville? They thought he was pres...