SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: Here, Helen Rittelmeyer says a lot, and doesn’t wander off for decades the way I do below. If you want some sense of the intellectual situation on the Right, but you don’t want to fight through the weeds below (or even if you do!), I highly recommend her post. I don’t endorse everything–if you want to know what I think, I’m always a pretty good source–but this is an awesome post. Helen’s always a few steps beyond, like Madness.

I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me.
—Soul Asylum, and yes, I’m ashamed to type that, but the 1990s were hard on all of us. It’s a fun song.