Announcement

Two days ago my frenzied attempt to “make sense of the American Right” came out as a book with Palgrave-Macmillan. My readers are urged to get hold of this slim volume, which Peter Brimelow describes as a “must read” for sudents of the American Right. Copies are available ...

Loose Ends

                                               Loose Ends The avalanche of criticism encountered by my blog concerning Ann, Rush, and the GOP's ...

A Glass Half Full

For several years I"€™ve been arguing over the same point with my son and my colleague Wes McDonald. Both think that I"€™m too hard on Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. They describe them as clever entertainers of the Right, whom I too would appreciate if I weren"€™t so damned ...

cultural revolution

            An English classicist, broadcaster, and man of letter, Sean Gabb, has just sent me a copy of a booklet he had written Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England and How To Get It Back (Hampden Press, 2007). Sean's tract has ...

Disinformation

About two weeks ago Justin Raimondo mentioned on a blog that Ron Paul's enemies had begun to smear him as an anti-Semite and racist. From the references I assumed that the sources of the attack were the neoconservatives, an assumption that made perfectly good sense given the diametrically opposed ...

A Liar’s Progress

Just as I was thinking that National Review couldn"€™t get any worse, I ran across new and even more tasteless verbiage on its pages. The comments by David Frum in the June 25 issue, on why it had taken him so long to change his mind about immigration, commits character assassination of a kind ...

Addicted to Guilt

A Fourth of July Washington Post-syndicated column by W's former speechwriter and the author of his Second Inaugural, Michael Gerson, struck so many Republican, neoconservative, and not least of all Evangelical themes that his words should be archived as illustrating self-induced illusion. The ...

Neocons and the Left: Know Your Enemies

To whatever extent there is an establishment conservative voice in the United States and in much of Western Europe, it sounds unmistakably neoconservative. Whether the topic is spreading "€œhuman rights,"€ favoring a "€œdemocratic capitalist welfare state,"€ opposing xenophobia and ...

The German Disease

As the former German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, has stated multiple times, "€œAuschwitz is the founding myth of our German democracy."€ And in line with this morbid obsession, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who in the international press is deceptively characterized as a ...

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