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Entry: John Lukacs: Crank Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/john_lukacs_crank#28179 Post contents: You raise some valid points, but your tone is contemptable. Can you disagree without the personal abuse? Of course there's been a crankish quality in Lukacs's work for the last twenty years or so. That may be one reason why people read his work. It's certainly something that people can examine and discuss. But to argue that he's more crankish than Pat or Lew Rockwell or that he's jealous of Pat Buchanan is either silly or stupid. Lukacs is someone who was basically right in 1940 and hasn't been able to get over it since. If his theories have gotten repetitive, mechanical, or unreflective over the years, it doesn't change the fact that he did get something right all those years ago in Budapest. In general, "crankishness" is probably an accusation you want to stay away from if you want your own ideas to get a hearing. Sent at: 2009 01 08