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Patrick asks: “Now we wait for days for a piece of machinery, seemingly leading us to a paradoxical time where we do everything and nothing for ourselves. Where does our cultural trajectory point to next?” Perhaps here: And then here: The kitschy but earnest 1960 adaptation of HG Wells’ 113-year-old classic, “The Time Machine,” bluntly [...]
Filed under: Culture
Rich Lowry writes that The Left needs to favor the Afghan war for political reasons as long as it is agitating against the Iraq war. But shouldn’t it oppose the Afghan war for all the same reasons it has opposed Iraq? Afghanistan is in a civil war; it has deep ethnic divisions; the war there [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Foreign policy, War
Everybody seems to agree that Richard Perlstein’s book, “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus” was a very good debut, and a useful insight into the conservative movement’s ascendancy. But who would pay $131.09 for a paperback edition? That’s the lowest price on Amazon: other sellers are asking for as [...]
Filed under: Books
It can do anything, I suppose. It checks your email, surfs the web, plays music, directs you with built in GPS, plays YouTube videos, takes pictures, updates you on stocks and weather, and it houses applications (“apps” in Mac-speak) to do nearly everything else, such as run eBay, post Tweets, play piano, and play “Super [...]
Filed under: Culture
My daughter had an unfortunate experience this weekend near Winchester in Virginia. She and a group of friends were tubing on the Shenandoah River. Nearby a large group of Hispanics were at a public park picnicking, apparently a regular event in that area. A boy and his father were wading in the river when suddenly [...]
Filed under: Immigration
I’ve raised the possibility of a pre-election U.S. and/or Israeli strike against Iran a while ago in, among other places, TAC (Osirak Redux?An Israeli strike on Iran would pin the U.S. down in Iraq and resuscitate the neocons), the Nieman Watchdog (A pre-election attack on Iran remains a possibility), the Asia Times (Forget about war with Iran?) and [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
Inspired by Rod Dreher’s interview with Michael Pollan, young progressive Steven White recalls the horror of once having read Wendell Berry: I was struck by the invocation of Wendell Berry. I had the general displeasure of reading some of the man’s works in a class called the Contested American Countryside. Berry is only difficult to [...]
Filed under: Culture
After covering the anti-globalization/peace marches of the last decade, yesterday’s revolution march in Washington was a refreshing, stark change in aesthetic, as well as rhetoric. The peace marches of late, most often than not organized by A.N.S.W.E.R, had turned into a depressing mass of disparate, angry special interests, glommed together by teeming college kids and [...]
Yesterday was the grassroots Ron Paul march/rally on the National Mall, six thousand marchers and more than a dozen speakers, from Tom Woods to G. Edward Griffin (author The Creature From Jekyll Island) to Michael Scheuer to Naomi Wolf — and, of course, Dr. Paul himself at the climax of the day’s events. Woods gave [...]
Filed under: libertarianism
When the government first proposed its tax rebate scheme last January, many were quick to point out the money was not ultimately, despite the signature on the check, a payment from the US government, but a loan from abroad, largely from Japan and China. Now that we can confidently anticipate the consensus will quickly form around the presumptive necessity of a bailout of that economically distressed couple Freddie and Fannie, it’s [...]
Filed under: Economics