J Arthur Bloom

Bio

Associate editor at The American Conservative and music reviewer at Tiny Mix Tapes. His work has appeared at TAC, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, Tiny Mix Tapes, Doublethink, The Gnostic, and The College Fix. Former managing editor of The Virginia Informer at William & Mary, Collegiate Network Paper of the Year 2008 & 2009. His love for local politics began reporting on and writing editorials in support of a successful effort to put a student--his former housemate, to be precise--on Williamsburg's city council. Received the CN's William F. Buckley award for undergraduate reporting for exposing abuse in America's oldest collegiate honor system. http://about.me/j_arthur_bloom
It's a generally accepted piece of conventional wisdom that libertarianism is on the up-and-up. The signs of this "libertarian moment" in which we supposedly find ourselves are generally thought to be the socially tolerant, anti-authoritarian views…
George Will and the Examiner's Michael Barone both predict landslides for Mitt Romney. Will thinks the nominee has a chance to pick up — get this — Minnesota with a final electoral college count of 321-217, and Barone estimates 315-223 with Romney…
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Near-constant surveillance is the new normal. We’ve come to expect it. On the bus to work, I used to take note of the number of speed and surveillance cameras, private and public, along the two-mile route. My tally passed eleven, then twelve, then…