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Entry: John Lukacs: Crank Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/john_lukacs_crank#28172 Post contents: Virgil Caine: Though he didn't sing with the choir you named, Andrew Capp has been gone for a long time, too. Actually, I think that I'll disappear for awhile -- sounds like there might be a real world outside of blogs . . . I am waiting for Scott Richert to comment on Lukacs' review. Awhile back he defended the counter-intuitive claim that Bush is a "nationalist," and in doing so he claimed for Lukacs virtual ex cathedra authority for defining what "nationalism" and "patriotism" mean. Turns out that "bad" is built into the definition of nationalism and "good" is built into the definition of "patriotism." So the question as to which is better actually is redundant. That's Lukacs in a nutshell. I wonder if Richert will qualify his support for Lukacs' ability to define terms after he reads the review of Buchanan's book. Sent at: 2009 01 08