A COMMENTER at VFR writes this excellent description of Barack Obama: Obama embodies the worst of all the modern liberal political pathologies–intellectual bankruptcy, boundless arrogance, embrasure of the “transgressive” as a virtue, the postmodern critique of the concepts of objective reality and absolute moral values, contempt towards and demonization of political opponents, the elevation [...]

  AS I WROTE in this entry, there is a basic misunderstanding about the public library’s democratic mission. The library now strives to be all things to all people. Technological change is also rapidly altering the library’s role. The library of the past is gone, but books are still the main purpose. Traditionally, a library preserves the highest. In the way, a [...]