Author: NiteMayr

But how American is libertarianism, really? Its most influential champions have usually been immigrants fleeing revolution who align themselves with whatever awful hereditary elites in the home country precipitated the revolution in the first place. Shouldn’t we consider that libertarianism is actually a form of crypto-tsarism—nostalgia for a lost world of untrammelled aristocratic power?

The rich really are different — and, apparently more self-absorbed, according to the latest research.

That goes against the conventional wisdom that the more people have, the more they appreciate their obligations to give back to others.

That includes exceptions of how many “laughs” a comedy should contain. It’s exceedingly rare for “Bob’s Burgers” to move its audience into belly-aching, gasping-for-breath territory.

The two complaints will serve as representative of the 41 received by the independent press council — six of which were in writing, the rest by phone.

The mood toughened just over a month ago, when I received a phone call from the centre of government telling me: “You’ve had your fun. Now we want the stuff back.” There followed further meetings with shadowy Whitehall figures. The demand was the same: hand the Snowden material back or destroy it. I explained that we could not research and report on this subject if we complied with this request. The man from Whitehall looked mystified. “You’ve had your debate. There’s no need to write any more.”