Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Writer for American magazines, native of Raleigh, NC.

Sydney, Australia
Joined April 2009

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  1. Because a mere critique (i.e. stop making up rights from whole cloth), while thinner, wouldn't be "entirely novel."

  2. Allowing people to deduct childcare costs without allowing them to deduct opportunity cost of one parent at home is vile social engineering.

  3. And the nice thing about church is, it doesn't cost $40,000 a year.

  4. -Poor people should get to reflect on deep questions of meaning & humanity, too. -What do you think church is for?

  5. Enlisting Milosz on behalf of ruling orthodoxy against guys who literally quit writing out of fear is some troll.

  6. If you're going to call the claim that America is post-Constitutional "hyperbole," you gotta do better than that.

  7. (Also, as freelance life looms, remember nothing says "welcome to the precariat" like a hit from the old Wish List…)

  8. I've got some exciting things planned for next month (including a U.S. trip), and after that, the sky's the limit.

  9. Exciting announcement: I will be writing full time from now on. Thanks to the CIS for a great three years, keep up the fight for freedom.

  10. In which and I quote scripture to each other.

  11. The controversial Melbourne street artist who's causing a stir overseas. Plus, victim politics. 7pm on

  12. Same thing with Kipling. Oh, you realize his view of empire is "far from rose-tinted"? Why does that surprise you?!

  13. Pet peeve: the assumption that "unequivocal praise" is the default mode of imperial art.

  14. I had to go back & check if there was a doppelganger in Christopher Koch's "Doubleman." You'd think! Turns out not.

  15. Oh, USA, where grown men wearing shorts is rare enough to be newsworthy, count your blessings! —Emigrée in Australia

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  17. I, for one, have no bias against intellectuals. only against those for whom "intellectual" is an affiliation and not a job description.

  18. This would be more convincing if he could name a modern conservative w/ a mind in a class with WFB, I Kristol et al:

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