1,193,480—that’s the number of Iraqis murdered by the neocons to date. From Just Foreign Policy: ”[A] study, published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet, estimated that over 600,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion as of July 2006. Iraqis have continued to be killed since then. The graphic above provides a rough daily update of this number … [Read More]

The second part of this essay can be found here. With memories still slick from the worst blood-letting in history, followed by the less dramatic horrors of the Soviet “peace,” the modern-day evil I witnessed wasn’t the worst thing ever to have happened in the city of Lviv, western Ukraine. But it surely was the offspring of the grossly satanic … [Read More]

Looking over my posts for the past three months, I can see I’ve been something of a downer, even for a paleocon. Indeed, re-reading them myself tempts to take to my bed with a couple of warm beagles, a CD of Hildegard von Bingen, and a stiff drink. But in the Easter spirit, I’d like to offer something positive today—news about … [Read More]

Dan McCarthy’s article on the relationship between pro-life conservatives and the GOP is simply excellent, especially in his framing of the question around the “new fusionism” envisioned by Bottum (which I have critiqued before) and the Hitchcock attack on antiwar pro-life conservatives (critiqued by Scott Richert here).  It provides a good beginning to discuss the parallel predicaments of pro-life and non-interventionist … [Read More]

Paul Gottfried reminds us that Obama was recently awash in the praise of Republicans who have now turned on him ferociously.  He also writes: There were of course critics of Obama on the right, but these were not the people who counted. They were members of the now isolated Old Right, those whom the centrist GOP establishment and their neoconservative confidants … [Read More]

So we reached yet another “sober moment”: 4000 dead Americans, 90,000 dead Iraqis, four million displaced persons, 3 to 5 trillion dollars spent, and tens of thousands of our own wounded existing in living hells of their own, with damaged brains and limbs, blind, unable to perform functions like eating or going to the bathroom by themselves, things we take for … [Read More]

Despite the reactions generated by recent revelations about the sermons of Obama’s pastor, I see no reason to change my comments. The current Republican-neoconservative attacks on Obama have been accompanied by the arduous efforts of “movement conservative” celebrities to persuade Republican voters to change their party registration in order to back Hillary in the primaries. I suspect that what lies behind … [Read More]

Will Western civilization survive the disappearance of Westerners? That’s what the secularized elites of the EU and the US are betting, and it’s the unacknowledged premise of the latest thick volume of Whig history, Worlds at War, by Anthony Pagden. In a learned review, Adam Kirsch of The New York Sun does an excellent job of summing up the book’s essence—saving … [Read More]

Of all the candidates for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, only one took the time to address the 35th-annual March for Life on Jan. 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. On the day of the march, this candidate, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, received the endorsement of Norma McCorvey, the eponymous “Jane Roe” of 1974, who since the verdict converted … [Read More]

There was tension behind the scenes here in Rome throughout Holy Week, as Vatican security and Italian police tried to preempt a possible attack on Pope Benedict—and thousands of Christian pilgrims—a threat implied in the latest message attributed to Osama Bin Laden. The terrorist leader accused Pope Benedict of leading a “new Crusade” against Moslems around the world, and blamed him … [Read More]