“€œThe Good War”€ in Context

I, too, am "€œglad"€ that we defeated the Third Reich, and there's much to admire about John's defense of American "€œinterventionism"€ in WWII. (Although it should be ...

About The “€œGood War,”€ Part II

The most emotionally powerful argument John advances is that America was descended from Europe, shared in European civilization, and so could not have stood by while Europe was ...

About The “€œGood War,”€ Part I

John has challenged us to think about the interventionist case for WWII and gives what is probably the best possible angle on the interventionist view that anyone is likely to ...

What the Hell Happened to Jim?”€”James Webb Talks Like Pat Buchanan, Votes Like Harry Reid

James Webb was once the great white hope of the paleoconservatives. A little over a year into his first term, Jim Webb so far looks like something else entirely: a ...

The Good War

As a hard-core paleocon who opposed virtually every U.S. intervention outside her borders since the end of the Cold War, I’ve often found myself conflicted when looking back ...

My “€œMugger-Loving”€ Mom

The racial reference that forced Geraldine Ferraro to leave the Clinton campaign and fly off on her broom brings back for me bittersweet memories of teenage years and Queens. ...

A Chosen People without God”€”The Rise of the Neocons

The fact that neoconservatives have thought and acted in terms of secularized Judaism places them in the larger company of many other atheistic ideologues who were more than ...

The Two-Edged Sword

Mickey Kaus beat me to the punch.  For that matter, so did Richard.  One of the reasons that I have frequently noted the obsession Obama supporters have with his ...

Seven Urban Legends

To everyone who got exercised about the “Vatican’s” new so-called “list of deadly sins” for the modern age, I have some good news—or bad news, ...

A Road Not Taken: Distributism

Yesterday I drew on the Niall Ferguson’s latest history of the 20th century to show how two vaunted alternatives to liberal capitalism—socialism (the fetish of class) ...

The Day I Met Ayn

When Ayn Rand appeared at the blue-green podium, peering intently at us through reading glasses that seemed too big for her face, I thought, for a moment, that there must be some ...

Tribe, Class, and Murder

Is ethno-nationalism a modern disease? Is it an inevitable product of human nature subjected to modern conditions, and therefore something we have to accommodate, despite the ugly ...

Tribes And Fundamentalism

Returning to something Leon Hadar said in the comments of one of my posts on ethnonationalism, I wanted to expand on his observation that Muller conflated categories of ethnic ...

McCain-Lieberman “€˜08″€”we can”€™t say we weren”€™t forewarned

Nestled in the second-to-last paragraph of Bill Kristol's morning op-ed in the Times is a rather fascinating series of suggestions: "€Perhaps the most obvious way McCain ...

Remember Dagger John!

Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop of New York, is clearly as worried as I am about the viciously anti-Christian legislation being backed by the abortionists’ best friend, NY ...

Mr. bin Laden, Meet Mr. Kennan”€”A New Containment Policy

    The unilateral declaration of independence by the Kosovo Albanian government on Feb. 17, followed closely by the Bush administration’s enthusiastic ...


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