Ah, yes, the New Republic - a creature of the Morgan partner Willard Straight, and once under the editorship of his son, Michael, a confessed but never-prosecuted member of Anthony Blunt’s communist homosexual cenacle at the University of Cambridge, along with Burgess and Philby. They want to engage in demagoguery about the irresponsibility of the wealthy?

No one complains so loudly of being robbed as a thief.

This is yet another in a long line of screeds from the self-anointed ‘tolerant’ calling for an end to any speech that they cannot refute and/or find a serious threat to their pet notions become dogmas, virtually all of which, by sheer coincidence, profit, financially and politically, themselves and their favorite special interest groups at the expense of everybody else.

At this late date, anyone who doubts that such people see themselves as possessed of The Inner Light and us as the spiteful, anachronistic kulaks to be silenced as possible under the given circumstances is at best hopelessly naive.

The reference to estate tax and Taki is for that purpose. If there are still some people with money who are willing to invest in getting our views aired, then we will influence some who manage to fight through the incessant drone of the postmodern zeitgeist to hear something that zeitgeist cannot afford to be heard by more than a very small handful. Those few who hear become the contemned heartland goyim that refuse to be just the unheard, happy tax slaves and cannon fodder for the Empire run by the consensus of the type minds that run The New Republic and The Weekly Standard: they provide “the grumblings in a small-town drugstore by men convinced that somehow the somehow [sic] the world has passed them by” that Paul Gottfried quotes from Allan Wolfe’s screed agianst Russel Kirk.

If there are no Takis because they have no money, then it is much easier for those with the vision of the anointed to prevent the airing of any ideas they know are a threat to their hegemony. That, in a nutshell, is the practical reason that all egalitarian revolutions become totalitarian and forge chains on economic helplessness around the ankles of those individuals and groups perceived as dangerous the new faith.

Frankly, I am very grateful for Taki’s having established TOP DRAWER and giving an opportunity to us blue collar minions a chance to read (and respond) pertinent, and well written articles on issues that affect our lives.  It has been said that a democracy depends upon an informed citizenry.  If Mr. Martin Peretz had his way, as I understand it, none of us would be allowed to have all points of view of a particular issue.  Nor would any of us be able to express our doubts or disagreements or recommendations.  The only view would be the Zionist or Neocon view.  Again, thanks Taki!

“MTV’s Sweet 16”?!?  He didn’t really say that, did he?  He’s a regular Junior Jonah G.  Hasn’t anyone told him that pop cultural allusions to things like Playboy After Dark, bong shots, The National Enquirer, Tickle Me Elmo and Reality TV are going to leave a lot of his adult male readers in the dark?  Recent Dartmouth grads will surely understand, but adults are a bit nonplussed.