Ken Thomas

Ken Thomas is a writer in Washington, DC. He has enjoyed careers in academia, government, and think-tankery.

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Written by Ken Thomas

• WWJD? What Would Jane (Austen) Do? - November 17, 2009
• You've Got A Lot of Nerve, Bob Dylan - November 13, 2009
• Dunn, Da-Dunn Done - November 10, 2009
• Tocqueville's Letters Home - November 10, 2009
• Lucky Bastard - November 5, 2009
• Lincoln's Thanksgiving Message - November 4, 2009
• Rocco's Offensive NEA - November 4, 2009
• Who is Obama? - November 2, 2009
• Hail, Caesar/Obama! - October 27, 2009
• Worth a Couple Grins - October 26, 2009
• The Strategy behind Pope Benedict's Blitzkrieg - October 26, 2009
• Fox in the Chickencoop? - October 23, 2009
• Georgetown Student Seeks Personal Assistant - October 22, 2009
• Broadway Comes to Washington - October 22, 2009
• Franck Stones Obama Pot Policy - October 20, 2009
• Re-Founding America: Natural Rights as Natural Choice - October 19, 2009
• Kindle Versus Printed Book - October 15, 2009
• Is Political Science a Science? - October 14, 2009
• Fascism in the Funnies - October 12, 2009
• A Better Peace Prize Idea - October 11, 2009
• Now Here's a Senior Thesis/Local History Project - October 10, 2009
• Ignoble Nobel Thoughts - October 9, 2009
• Czar Wars - October 7, 2009
• In Defense of General McChrystal - October 6, 2009
• Go, Rousseau, 'gainst the Artsy Faux - October 5, 2009
• A PSA for Big Government - October 5, 2009
• Straussophobia - October 3, 2009
• The House of (Greeting) Cards - October 3, 2009
• Yom Kippur Reflection on Leo Strauss - September 28, 2009
• Washington Bails Out Detroit - September 28, 2009
• German Elections--Eine kleine Erklaerung - September 27, 2009
• The Enviros Reach Beyond Their Grasp - September 25, 2009
• Asian Uh-ohs, and It's not Just Sarah - September 23, 2009
• Back to School Defense Tips - September 22, 2009
• Hypocrite-in-Chief calls for civility - September 21, 2009
• The White House Logos - September 20, 2009
• Irving Kristol, RIP - September 18, 2009
• Constitution Day Pop Quiz - September 17, 2009
• Are you paying less for food? - September 17, 2009
• Jump the Shark, Snag a Czar-dine - September 16, 2009
• House Rebukes Wilson; Obama next? - September 15, 2009
• Quick Hit on the Obama Speech - September 10, 2009
• Loving Freedom: Why the left are unfaithful lovers - September 9, 2009
• Sunday Funnies: Stimulus Package Explained - September 6, 2009
• Is this really the Washington Post? - August 28, 2009
• Hallowed Ground, even in Los Angeles - August 25, 2009
• No First Amendment for Capitol Hill GOP - August 25, 2009
• All-purpose Alinsky - August 22, 2009
• Garage sale regulation and death panels--the tie-in - August 21, 2009
• Cash 4 Clunkers Dead; Obama Resurrects Health Care Alternative - August 20, 2009
• Obama's POMP - August 20, 2009
• Dr. Kesler operates on Obama and the Republicans - August 18, 2009
• Bureaucrats for Clunkers - August 18, 2009
• Death Panels: The Dutch Experience - August 17, 2009
• Fancy Dancing by Harry Jaffa - August 17, 2009
• Doonesbury joins the revolt, and other Sunday funnies - August 16, 2009
• The "Birthers" in Obama’s strategy - August 4, 2009
• What Biden’s Beer Summit Presence Reveals - August 4, 2009
• This Federalist Takes the Cake - July 28, 2009
• More Shop Class as Soulcraft, on Motorcycle Repair Versus Modernity - July 25, 2009
• Obama on Signing Statements and Article II Powers - July 15, 2009
• Sotomayor Hearings - July 14, 2009
• Re-Reading Jane Austen in Tehran - July 7, 2009
• Reading Jane Austen in Tehran - July 5, 2009
• Honduran Turns - July 5, 2009
• Battle of the Lincoln Books - July 3, 2009
• Palin’s Boldness - July 3, 2009
• Speaking of Cuba.... Hisss - June 12, 2009
• Reverend Wright and the Holocaust Museum Murderer - June 11, 2009
• Obama Partisan Non-Partisanship - June 5, 2009
• PJ O’Rourke on the Death of the Detroit Automobile - May 30, 2009
• Sonia’s Song? - May 29, 2009
• Night at the Museum and Spongebob - May 25, 2009
• Leon Kass’s Socratic Turns - May 22, 2009
• The Audacity of Obama - May 21, 2009
• Leo Strauss Center Established - May 19, 2009
• Meeting the Challenge of Obama - May 17, 2009
• Excerpts from Obama’s Notre Dame Address - May 15, 2009
• Will a Friend of Justice Clarence Thomas Join the Court? - May 10, 2009
• Justice Scalia at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast - May 8, 2009
• Marion Barry Joins the Catholic Church - May 6, 2009
• How to Argue About the Supreme Court - May 2, 2009
• Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday - April 23, 2009
• What Caused the Civil War? The Spring Offensive of the 44th - April 20, 2009
• Ross Douthat Batting For Bill Kristol - April 18, 2009
• Lincoln’s Death: Contemporary Reactions - April 18, 2009
• The Reasoned Case Against Cockeyed Hawkeye Gay Marriage - April 11, 2009
• How Ward Churchill Got Tenure - April 4, 2009
• Leo Strauss, Digitized - April 3, 2009
• Medvedev Might Tutor Obama on Tocqueville - March 31, 2009
• New UC Berkeley Center May Investigate Ashbrook - March 29, 2009
• Charles Murray’s "Aristotelianism": American Exceptionalism - March 13, 2009
• Liberal Education at Liberty University - March 11, 2009
• Politics Mediates Science: We Believe in Politics - March 10, 2009
• Not to be Missed: Rush at CPAC - March 1, 2009
• "In Stunning Act of Delayed Retribution, First Black President Enslaves All Americans" - February 18, 2009
• Lincoln Book Notes - February 16, 2009
• Kyrgyz Eyes: Slanted Toward Moscow - February 13, 2009
• Another Look at Martha Washington - February 2, 2009
• A 21st Century Thomas - January 28, 2009
• Inaugural Prayers: From Pluralistic to Protestant - January 17, 2009
• Two Cheers for Constitutional Conservatism - January 2, 2009
• Is Bill Kristol Smoking Something With Barack? - December 30, 2008
• Chesterton as Anti-Progressive - December 27, 2008
• Sobering Thoughts From Mark Helprin - December 20, 2008
• The Man Behind the "Ponzi Scheme" - December 20, 2008
• Gaze Into Obama’s Soul - December 19, 2008
• Clever Left, Insipid Right - December 10, 2008
• Rush Limbaugh and Clarence Thomas at the Hillsdale College Churchill Dinner - December 5, 2008
• How the Washington Post Rots Your Mind: Reason 67,510,982 - December 2, 2008
• A Modern Plymouth Rock Pilgrimage - November 27, 2008
• This Gates Swings Both Ways? - November 26, 2008
• Danielle Allen 2.0--The Polis or the Party? - November 25, 2008
• Spiderman Snares the White House: National Humanities and Arts Medals Winners - November 17, 2008
• The Prudence in Proposition 8’s Passage - November 15, 2008
• Opera in Three Acts: L’Obama, ossia L’Avvento del Messia - November 15, 2008
• Obama’s Seance with Lincoln - November 8, 2008
• Obama’s Speech - November 5, 2008
• America’s Future: Barack Obama Versus Clarence Thomas - November 4, 2008
• Closing Argument on Obama’s Radicalism - November 4, 2008
• Multiple Obamas - November 2, 2008
• Obama as Anti-Lincoln, Now in Song - October 31, 2008
• Obama’s Ambition vis-a-vis Lincoln and the American Founding - October 30, 2008
• Obama: U.S. and Nazis Similar - October 29, 2008
• Two Days in the Heartland With a Band of Joes - October 24, 2008
• Obama’s Tears, his Family, and his Faith: Part III of Reflections on - October 21, 2008
• Obama’s Mean-Spiritedness Emerges - October 16, 2008
• Fathers and Sons (Thoughts on Obama’s Dreams from My Father, Part II) - October 15, 2008
• What Did Obama Know About Himself and When did He Know it? - October 13, 2008
• Professor Harry Victor Jaffa Turns Four Score and Ten - October 12, 2008
• Opening Up a Mortal Wound on Obama? (Updated) - October 4, 2008
• "Corporate greed" - October 3, 2008
• Palin’s Lost Opportunity et al. - October 2, 2008
• On "Winning" a Debate - September 27, 2008
• “I can see Russia from my house” - September 27, 2008
• A Note on Polls - September 25, 2008
• Good move, now follow up - September 24, 2008