The Italian political theorist and longtime socialist journalist Carlo Galli recently published a short volume called Perché ancora destra-sinistra (roughly translated, "Why is there still right and left?"). Galli's definitions show scant evidence of semantic evenhandedness. He seems to ...
I watched a Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate bring an evangelical crowd to their feet three years ago by announcing that "Owning a gun is a human right." I mumbled to myself: "So is protection from body odor." It's not that I"m against people owning guns, but there are ...
The recent pillorying of John Derbyshire and Bob Weissberg after being accused of making tactless remarks about race recalled a question that's been bothering me for decades. Why should we think that race is the only untouchable subject or the only issue that, to use George Will's misleading ...
Unlike Rich Lowry's predictably PC response to John Derbyshire's controversial article on what parents should tell their kids about race, I was less than "appalled" by it. John's judgments are not entirely mine, and unlike my good friend I probably would stop (and I hope my grown-up ...
Being recently stuck for many hours in an exceedingly narrow space on a plane headed from London to DC, I was desperate enough to grab that garish British tabloid the Daily Mail when the stewardess offered it to me. On page four, I noticed a column by a renowned critic of Third World immigration, ...
Much to the consternation of Western intellectuals and journalists, Hungary's government sponsors a House of Terror in Budapest which dares to devote attention to not only Nazi crimes, but also Stalinist ones. Ever since the ascendance of the "antifascist" (read: neo-Stalinist plus PC) ...
As I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society's national meeting in April, featuring wall-to-wall denunciations of "America and Her Detractors," I wondered whether all anti-Americanism is the same. At one time there were communist sympathizers who adored the Soviets for whatever ...
I attended an event for Pat Buchanan and his biographer Tim Stanley at DC's Politics and Prose Bookstore on February 17. After Tim and Pat's informative presentations, the audience was invited to ask questions. Most of the questions seemed to come from admiring remnants of the Buchanan ...
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A vastly underexplored topic is the British government's role in greasing the skids for World War I. Until recently it was hard to find scholars who would dispute the culturally comfortable judgment that "authoritarian Germany" unleashed the Great War out of militaristic arrogance. ...
