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According to Mark Helprin in the Wall Street Journal: We owe them a decision to go to war ratified unambiguously by the American people through their constitutional and republican institutions. Except where instantaneous response is necessitated by a clear and present danger, this means a declaration of war issued by a Congress that will fully [...]
Filed under: World
A New Yorker article on Wikileaks’ heroic Julian Paul Assange asserts: “But, unlike authoritarian regimes, democratic governments hold secrets largely because citizens agree that they should, in order to protect legitimate policy.” This is one of the biggest crocks in modern history. Wikileaks is doing more to promote self-government than the vast majority of liberal publications [...]
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As readers can see on TAC‘s main page, our cover story this month is on America’s Vanished veterans — those who never came home from Vietnam and remain classified as “missing in action.” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Schanberg has compiled copious evidence that some of these men were left behind at the conclusion of the [...]
“Queer black marxist feminist political economy in a white-supremacist heterosexist-homophobic capitalist patriarchy: Rhonda M. Williams on method, history, theory, and policy,” by Mathew Forstater. “Despite the subtitle,” the description reads, “this paper is neither a comprehensive overview nor an in-depth study of Williams’ work.” But of course — surely one would need two dozen hardbound [...]
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Sunday’s New York Times, gearing up for Memorial Day, carries a leading front-page story direct from the Afghan front, complete with photos. Does it tell of the 1,000 Americans who have perished there in America’s longest war, or the unknown number of innocent Afghans to fall, or the many more on both sides gruesomely injured, [...]
Filed under: War
There is a piece in today’s Sunday Times of London entitled “Israel stations nuclear missile subs off Iran” (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7140282.ece). The article states that Israel is sending one of its three Dolphin class submarines to the Persian Gulf “near the Iranian coastline” to permit retaliation if Iran or its allies in Syria and Lebanon attempt a missile [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
Jacob Weisberg offers a superficially plausible explanation of recent struggles on the Right — he sees them reflecting a split between Western and Southern varieties of conservatism, the former identified with Barry Goldwater and now Rand Paul, the latter with Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed. The examples he provides suggest that his West/South breakdown is [...]
Filed under: Politics
Since America became a nation, four of her greatest generals have served two terms as president: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant and Dwight David Eisenhower. Not one of these generals led America into a new war. Washington was heroic in keeping the young republic out of the wars that erupted in Europe after the [...]
Filed under: War
The April 20 Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is a gift from British Petroleum that keeps on giving: 11 human lives lost, 2,940,000 gallons of oil daily, a 2,500-square-mile oil slick, underwater plumes 10 miles across, softball-size tar balls washing up on beaches of Louisiana, marshes and wildlife wiped out, the regional economy [...]
Filed under: environment, Politics, World
In Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, the captains of industry bring the country down by going on strike, refusing to remain the motor of a society that despises them. You can’t have an economy without producers. Similarly, you can’t have a film without actors. Or can you? For almost two decades, Hollywood has tried unsuccessfully to [...]
Filed under: Culture