http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson RSS Feed for Inq Col Frank Wilson en-us Sun, 27 May 2012 10:23:58 GMT 2012-05-27T10:23:58Z en-us http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/20120520_The_true_libertarian.html Recently someone named Adam Teicholz, described as a writer living in New York and “a former judicial clerk at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals,” posted a piece on the Atlantic’s website titled “Did Bloggers Kill the Health Care Mandate?” What caught my attention was the deck (journalese for the part of a headline — right below the main headline — that summarizes the story), which said in part that “a handful of right-wing legal experts have changed the way Americans view the Affordable Care Act.” Sun, 27 May 2012 10:23:58 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/20120520_The_true_libertarian.html 2012-05-27T10:23:58Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/20070701_The_edges_of_character.html You would think that someone who had, among other things, painstakingly mapped the borders of Pennsylvania, meticulously laid out the street plan for the city of Washington, and traced the first national border of the United States would be a well-known and highly regarded figure. Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:40:37 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/20070701_The_edges_of_character.html 2007-07-02T18:40:37Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/5902656.html Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:48:22 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/5902656.html 2007-09-22T05:48:22Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/20070128_Amis__imagining_of_gulag_suffering_.html Martin Amis is admirably concerned that the colossal atrocities inflicted upon Russia by the Soviet regime not be forgotten. Koba the Dread (2002), his meditation on the evil works and pomps of Stalin, while replete with a detailed litany of the horrors the paranoid Georgian set in motion, also established that "Uncle Joe" was simply continuing - on a far grander scale, of course - homicidal policies already well-established by Lenin and Trotsky. Mon, 07 May 2007 14:41:43 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/20070128_Amis__imagining_of_gulag_suffering_.html 2007-05-07T14:41:43Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/20070123__57_portrait_of_a_society_Philadelphian.html Richard Powell's novel The Philadelphian has suffered a peculiarly Philadelphian fate: undeserved obscurity. Consider a parallel example: Not many people nowadays remember N.W. Ayer & Son, America's first advertising agency, founded in 1869, and coiner of such immortal slogans as "When it rains it pours," "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," and "A diamond is forever." But they probably would if the agency's city of origin had been someplace besides Philadelphia. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:06:48 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_wilson/20070123__57_portrait_of_a_society_Philadelphian.html 2007-04-13T15:06:48Z