SusanofTexas

Our glibertarian princess, our just-barely-Ivy League just-barely-intellectual, our bouncing baby bankster booster, our corporate whore who always wants to give more—Megan McArdle!—has returned! You can keep your Julian Sanchezes and Katherine Mangu-Wards and Tony Woodliefs, all amateurs at the fine art of deception and delusion. We’ll take the real thing, a woman who can toss [...]

Hey, kids, let’s put on a show! First, we will need money. We might be lucky enough to find a director with money, but we will also need backers. I know of several major corporations who would love to help us perform. I will accept their offers and we will be sheltered under the generous [...]

One of the more annoying aspects of authoritarianism is the fact that its followers feel no responsibility for their actions. Take Governor Jeb, of the House of Bush: When I [Matt Bai] asked him whether Mr. Obama had a legitimate point — whether his brother’s administration did, in fact, bear responsibility for the country’s economic [...]

When libertarians pretend to be compassionate to persuade liberals, something is bound to go wrong. It’s not an easy thing for them to do. They have to imagine that other people exist, other people matter, other people might need help, and that helping others is a good thing. It must be exhausting. So we fully [...]

Megan McArdle’s guest-blogger Will Wilkinson posts again about having children, more or less. We have a very bad feeling that we are about to undergo an endless parade of New Villager discussions about childbearing, as they are all in or approaching that stage of life. We are devoutly hoping that McArdle herself will refrain from [...]

Another Father’s Day has come and gone, which means another flood of conservative posts declaring fatherhood is dead and Liberal Society was found standing over its corpse, red-handed. From Megan McArdle’s guest-blogger, Tony Woodlief: It’s striking that when one hears of someone being “mothered,” this evokes the image of caretaking, but “fathered” simply means, to [...]

This is part six of a continuing series about the famous Bloggers who fight for truth, justice, and American Exceptionalism.–the Author In a Secret Location, a Meeting of Diabolical Minds takes place. It is the League of Extraordinary Bloggers, each a hero (or a heroine or a Coulter) in his (or hers, or Coulter’s) own [...]

Since Megan McArdle’s male bloggers are leaving most of the work to the women, let’s look at Ms. Courtney Knapp’s latest contribution to The Atlantic. Knapp is a “tipster” for Reason and a friend of McArdle, which tells us that she must, at the very least, have libertarian leanings. But being a libertarian in reality [...]

God Whisperer Tony Woodlief sentimentally mentions the McArdle wedding, which we will ignore in favor of one of his observations: The room was filled with brilliant, snarky people, many of them paid to analyze or critique, nearly all of them familiar enough with politics and human nature to spot sentimentality and cons and prevarication a [...]

Not us–them. Meet Megan McArdle’s guest-bloggers, a highly diverse group of young(ish), white, conservative, policy wonks with dogs who work (or worked) in DC’s network of conservative think tanks, information brokers and writers. First up is a Cato scholar, whom I’ll number Cato 1, Cato being the well that burbled forth so many McArdle friends. [...]