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The GOP presidential race has gone too long without guidance from TWS readers, and God knows it needs guidance…so it’s time for a survey. The usual directions: Indicate your first, second and third choices for the Republican presidential nomination from the following list:
Jeb Bush
Ted Cruz Vote here. (If you’re having trouble accessing the form, feel free to email.) I’ll report the results next week, and the shape of the race will undoubtedly become clearer as a result. Meanwhile, if by some fluke you weren’t spending a lot of time online the day after Thanksgiving, here’s a link to something I posted that day in which I called attention to a curious aspect of this year’s very curious contest. And if you’re interested in our discussion of the GOP race on the This Week roundtable Sunday, here’s a post with the video. |
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College Football Showdown
The Republican presidential poll asks for your preferences. Let’s do something different for the college football championship, and ask for your predictions. And let’s not make it too easy for you by waiting for next Monday when we’ll know who has made the final four. So email here this week with your prediction of the four teams that will make the championship playoff, and of the winner. Correct picks get a prize of inestimable value, to be determined by our crack prize-choosing staff.
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One More Thanksgiving Item
Last week I recommended some reading for Thanksgving. Looking around the internet on Thanksgiving morning (I know, I should get a life…), I came across these brief remarks Winston Churchill addressed to his American allies on Thanksgiving Day, 1944. Thanksgiving’s come and gone, but it’s still worth the four minutes to listen to Churchill–and to note the clip so you can listen again in a more timely fashion next year.
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A New Name for the Wilson School?
This newsletter is already unusually participatory, with a presidential preference poll and a college football prediction competition, so why not go whole hog and throw in a third chance for you to weigh in? Please send helpful suggestions to cowering administrators at Princeton on what they might rename the now suddenly objectionable Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. On Twitter, I suggested Princeton name its public policy school after the University’s most recent graduate who has a decent chance at becoming president: The Rafael Theodore (“Ted”) Cruz School of Public and International Affairs has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? Somehow I doubt the powers-that-be at Princeton will go for that. But I’m sure they’re open to other constructive suggestions. Feel free to submit them here.
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A Discussion of the Christmas Virtues
Last week, I sang the praises of Jonathan Last’s new edited volume of essays, consisting of contributions witty and wise on the Christmas virtues from dignitaries such as Andrew Ferguson, Joseph Epstein, Matt Labash, Sonny Bunch and many, many more. But if you live in the DC area you can do more than read the book! You can come to the American Enterprise Institute Monday evening December 7th for a merry reception and panel discussion, starring contributors Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, James Lileks, P. J. O’Rourke, Mollie Hemingway, Steve Hayes, and Jonathan Last himself. As we hipsters like to say, Be there or be square!
In any case, so AEI knows how much eggnog to provide, RSVP here if you can attend the event. To watch live online, click here on December 7 at 6:30 PM ET.
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Until next week–onward.
Bill Kristol
P.S. — Please do send along your thoughts and tips to [email protected].
