The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Yuval Levin and Jim Manzi respond elegantly to David Brooks' remarkably crude op-ed today. Manzi urges federalism and moderation on social issues, like abortion and marriage and science. Couldn't agree more. I'm also less convinced that David Cameron has actually...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
That's exactly what the National Review Institute is aiming to do: Highlighted and advancing the best of the ideas on the Right. At their conference last week, Mike Franc, Yuval Levin, and Heather Mac Donald were among the originial conservative thinkers on display. Mona Charen wrote about the conference here.
THE CONSERVATIVE POST (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, as well as the various writings of people like Ramesh Ponnuru, Yuval Levin, Jim Manzi, Rod Dreher, Peggy Noonan and, at the moderate edge, me. The folly of these self-titled “reformers” is unmistakable. They argue that the reason the GOP is in dire straights is because the GOP have stuck to conservative principles in the face of a changing electorate....
Wax Banks (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Professional writers who write like this should be fired: Tank Artillery [Kathryn Jean Lopez] That's exactly what the National Review Institute is aiming to do: Highlighted and advancing the best of the ideas on the Right. At their conference last week, Mike Franc, Yuval Levin, and Heather Mac Donald were among the originial conservative thinkers on display. Mona Charen wrote about the...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... come, conservatives will have to rely on the strength of their ideas. The most important battle, Yuval Levin of the Ethics and Public Policy Center argued, will be health care. If health care is successfully nationalized in America, the case for a smaller and less bureaucratic state becomes immeasurably more difficult. Throughout the developed world, in countries that have adopted...
Politico (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... debate over healthcare. “We have to restrain and hold back the Obama healthcare train,” said Yuval Levin, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, arguing that enacting a government-backed healthcare plan would change the terms of any future debate over the size of government. “Any future tax cut will be described as choking your health care,” Levin said, prompting...
even yet another blag (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
An NROite is unimpressed: Green’s Bad Advice [Yuval Levin] Ross Douthat and Matthew Franck have both offered good responses to Ronald Green’s extraordinarily silly op-ed offering the President-Elect some advice about stem cells. Green somehow imagines that the way to diffuse opposition to the destruction of embryos is to do exactly what the opponents oppose, and so he proposes to Obama...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
The National Review Institute and Hillsdale College are throwing a conference devoted to that very topic in Washington a week from today. Confirmed speakers include Rich Lowry, Heather MacDonald, David Brooks, Andrew McCarthy, Frederick Kagan, and Yuval Levin.
Real Clear Politics (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Senator Lindsey Graham - of all people - praises the choice of Rahm Emanuel for Chief of Staff. Conservative Pete Wehner does not. Liberal Ezra Klein has mixed feelings. Another liberal, David Corn, says the choice could send the wrong signal. Yuval Levin at National Review calls the choice "extremely disconcerting." Personally, I respect Rahm's political [...]
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, as well as the various writings of people like Ramesh Ponnuru, Yuval Levin, Jim Manzi, Rod Dreher, Peggy Noonan and, at the moderate edge, me. Brooks argues that, in the short run at least, the Traditionalists are going to win the battle because they control Washington, the think tanks, and, most importantly, the mythos: Members of the conservative...
Stubborn Facts - (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
I join Pat's last two posts in full, as I do Peter Kirsanow's post here , Scott Johnson's post here , Yuval Levin's posts here and here , and Jim Geraghty's posts here and here . I should also note Chris Beam's post here ,and reitereate what we said after the last election (a memo we mentioned here ): everyone in the House Republican leadership must go at the end of this Congress. A...
Right Voices (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Captain F-Bomb has accepted the position as Obama’s chief of staff. Yuval Levin offers this not so rosy picture: He is smart and tough. But he has been, in both positions [as Clinton staffer and House member], a vicious graceless partisan: narrow, hectic, unremittingly aggressive, vulgar, and impatient. Those who have worked for and with him [...]
American Pundit (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
It would seem that President Bipartisan’s first staff hiring will be Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill) in the position of White House Chief of Staff. Emanuel is well-known as a hyper-partisan, far-left pitbull. That’s not a great sign, as Yuval Levin notes, as to which Barack Obama we’ll see in the White House. Barack Obama has, to [...]
INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Because he's such a magnanimous wingnut, Yuval Levin is offering advice to President-Elect Obama on how to pick a chief-of-staff : The White House chief of staff is not a chief strategist or a chief advocate. He is a manager of people and of process. Above all else, he sets the tone internally, and shapes the president’s decision process and the feel of the upper tiers of the administration....
Ross Douthat (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
For election eve, a potpourri of links related to the future of the Right ... ... Yuval Levin, who's almost always more sanguine than yours truly, discusses what reform conservatism might mean. (And see Jonah Goldberg's response as well.) ... Allahpundit parses the final Fox poll, and offers some astute thoughts on how the Joe the Plumber gambit and the selling of Sarah Palin worked out...
