Remember him? He was the supply-side conservative think tanker who lost his job for opposing Harriet Miers’s appointment, and also for penning a book whose title openly compared Bush to Reagan (Bush lost). Bruce checked in with us yesterday to send along a Publishers Weekly press release. You can call off the guilty liberal pledge drive. He’s going to be just fine: MORE »

Before the National Review goes to war with the other Families of intellectual conservatism (”That’s alright, this thing’s gotta happen every five years or so — ten years — helps to get rid of the bad blood”), in swoops Adam Bellow to argue that the real problem is what Harriet Miers doesn’t know, not necessarily whom she does. Bellow is of course the author of the book In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush, and must be thanking every one of his outstretched bootstraps that the current tussle over the president’s Supreme Court pick has him working again. (Outstretched definitions, too: he’s the one conflating cronyism with nepotism). But hang on a minute: MORE »

The first thing we do is kill all the better-qualified lawyers. Then we sack the think-tankers. MORE »