Feb 11, 2013 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Conservatives vs. the Intellectuals?

So everyone’s talking about the article by the intellectual Russell Jacoby on the alleged fact that there are no conservative intellectuals anymore. The article isn’t much good, in fact. One problem is that it doesn’t really explain what an intellectual is. The first outstanding criticism of modern intellectuals came from the lefty philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. [...]

President Obama’s Economic Growth Is Unworthy of U.S. Tradition: What’s the Matter?

By Brian Domitrovic|2013-12-19T10:25:44-06:00February 11th, 2013|Categories: Barack Obama, Brian Domitrovic, Economics|

Last November, the political science models that predict presidential-election winners broke. As has long been taught, no incumbent ever wins re-election after presiding over weak recovery from a steep recession and 1.5% yearly economic growth—namely President Obama’s record over his first term in office. So political scientists have to tend to their models. In the [...]