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Entry: The VDare Monologues Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_vdare_monologues#14477 Post contents: Well… if the next great war is fought on purely scatological terms, we can be sure John Ball will emerge as the Arsenal of Demagoguery. The value of websites like V-DARE is their defiant inclusion of writers disliked and even disowned by our stagnant, happy-talk mainstream. It doesn’t matter that readers agree or disagree with everything or anything V-DARE’s contributors post. MacDonald points out that after the publication of the Mearsheimer-Walt paper on the Israeli Lobby, the American academy for the most part closed ranks, condemned the very idea that such a lobby existed and ignored the issue. Whether the students and faculty agreed or disagreed with Mearsheimer and Walt was simply not on the table. The subject was clapped into an intellectual gulag. There were key factors that helped turn this country into the richest, most powerful nation in human history. Like it or not, capitalism and the Industrial Revolution were a couple. But the real boost was a social compact that allowed – even encouraged – a free and open exchange of ideas. That such a revolutionary approach has been so degraded and crippled on American campuses condemns us to a future as backwater, third-rate banana republic. Sent at: 2008 10 06