Outside the Beltway

What is the appropriate response to someone who’s acting like a jerk?

There’s no consensus for European-style social democracy or a Randian libertarian paradise.

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

Attempts to capture the speech patterns of the American South in written dialogue should be approached with extreme caution.

A bizarre rant in American Spectator contains some interesting thoughts about the nature of America’s political elite.