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I’ve so far stayed out of the recent discussions of localism, but this post of Patrick Deneen’s gets at something that bears emphasizing on this Independence Day weekend: To say the least, it’s peculiar to insinuate that localism was somehow the animating spirit behind the anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust. By that argument, fierce [...]
Filed under: patriotism
By H.C. Johns (Cross-posted at The Other Right) There are a lot of figures in Roman history who Dick Cheney resembles quite strikingly. Cicero, however is not one of them, despite David Carlin’s argument to the contrary: Cicero (like Cheney) was faced with a choice: Do I break the law, or do I let Catiline and his [...]
Filed under: patriotism, torture
A lengthy e-mail exchange with a reader who took issue with the tone of this post and some others made it clear to me that I ought to state my position on the relevant issues a bit more clearly (and calmly). In no particular order, then: (1) I do think it’s possible for people of [...]
Filed under: government/law, morality, patriotism, torture
Arlen Specter isn’t. Nor am I. And nor, it seems, is much of anyone else: … when you are looking for clues as to where the two parties stand politically there is only one number to remember: 21. That’s the percent of people in the Post/ABC survey who identified themselves as Republicans, down from 25 [...]
Filed under: conservatism, patriotism, politics
Sorry, but life and work are still getting in the way of blogging. I do, however, wish to give my endorsement to these sentences of Will Wilkinson’s: One of the first arguments against vouchers, tax credits or other systems of publicly-financed, privately-provided education is that taxpayer money should not go to schools that teach this [...]
Filed under: education, patriotism, politics, religion
At the end of a column on the race for the RNC chairmanship, Reasons’s Brian Doherty gets provocative: Last week, an important figure in modern intellectual conservative history, of the sort that would-be RNC chiefs and members would probably little note nor long remember, died: Father Richard John Neuhaus. My favorite Neuhaus moment involved a [...]
Filed under: conservatism, government/law, patriotism
Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but you’d think that the woman assigned to sing the National Anthem before the BCS Mythical National Championship Game would at least be able to get the lyrics right …
Filed under: media/culture, patriotism, sports
Glenn Greenwald takes note of the Politico’s list of the "Top Ten Political Scoops of 2008," and correctly points out just how trivial almost every item on the list actually is – things like Katie Couric’s interview of Sarah Palin, Obama’s ‘bitter’ comment, Jeremiah Wright, and McCain’s inability to say the number of houses he [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, government/law, media/culture, morality, patriotism, politics, torture, war
A few weeks ago, Reihan Salam asked me if I’d be up for contributing occasionally to The American Scene, and as I say this evening in introducing my first post over there, that was a pretty huge honor. The Scene is clearly one of the best right-of-center blogs out there, and I’m really happy to [...]
Filed under: patriotism, personal, war
Both of my grandfathers served as officers in the Navy during World War II, and for that reason among many others Veterans Day is one of those occasions that leaves me with tons of conflicted feelings. I’m going to try to sketch some of those thoughts out before the end of the day, but for [...]
Filed under: patriotism, war