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Ten years ago I was a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis and had only begun to write semi-professionally. On the Tuesday of the 9/11 attacks, I had woken up early to study for a quiz that morning and saw on the Drudge Report that some nitwit had flown his light plane into [...]
Scott Horton of Antiwar.com radio interviewed me for his show last Thursday. Here’s the audio (MP3). I’m more rambling than usual: the point I make about the two parties being essential similar in their foreign policy, but still having minute differences that can be exploited, might seem rather murky. The overarching thing I wanted to [...]
Filed under: War
I have a short essay in the June issue of Shalom, the newsletter of the Jewish Peace Fellowship, on “epistemic closure” and the apparent death of thoughtful conservatism. I argue that the Right has long drawn intellectual energy from the Left — both in the sense that adversity sharpened the conservative mind and in that [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, magazines, War
At Commentary, Fred Siegel writes in praise of the anti-Mencken, Bernard DeVoto, who lambasted the writers of his era for their lack of faith in American exceptionalism. And like certain pundits today, DeVoto considered apostasy from our national religion a sign of incipient fascism: Referring to Ernest Hemingway and the poet Robinson Jeffers, DeVoto argued [...]
The tail end of last week was a busy time for TAC staff. Thursday, which was also the first day of CPAC, was our print date. I made it to the conclave just long enough to emcee Thomas DiLorenzo’s talk, “Lincoln on Liberty: Friend or Foe?”, before hotfooting it back to the office for a [...]
Filed under: Ideology, Philosophy, The Left, War
In his autobiography Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, J.G. Ballard raises the question Pat Buchanan asks in Churchill, Hitler, and the “Unnecessary War”: Should we [i.e., Britain] have gone to war in 1939, given how ill-prepared we were, and how little we did to help Poland, to whose aid Neville Chamberlain had committed us [...]
Christopher Buckley’s 1983 Esquire essay on his ambiguous feelings about not going to Vietnam — referenced by R.J. Stove in this comment thread — is included in Buckley’s splendid collection Wry Martinis. The book also contains a follow-up, “Incoming,” written in the Washington Post and responding to the avalanche of mail Buckley received about the [...]
Filed under: War
Maybe. I don’t agree with Bob Conley on trade, but he’s antiwar, pro-life, anti-neocon, anti-Patriot Act, and to the right of just about any Democrat you can think of since Larry McDonald. The South Carolina Senate nominee is having a fundraiser in the D.C. area on Saturday — 12:30-3:30 pm in McLean, Virginia. ($50 suggested [...]
Filed under: events, Politics, Uncategorized, War