When the Soviet Union's ramshackle empire imploded, and what Louis Bromfield called the "worldwide psychopathic cult" of Communism fell into an embarrassed quietude, it seemed the socialist dream was over. As it turned out, however, we should only have been so lucky. Socialism, the seizure ...
In writing my endorsement of Ralph Nader, I passed rather quickly over the question of the right-wing splinter parties, namely the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party, so as not to get bogged down in an extended discussion. I see, however, from the reaction to my piece, that the bog is ...
No conservative or libertarian can possibly contemplate voting for either of the "major" party candidates, this time around, on several grounds, the most conspicuous being their intractable and almost instinctive predilection for deploying the all-too-visible hand of government as the ...
Obama's campaign would have us believe that he's the anti-corporate candidate, a populist "man of the people" whose race for the White House is being funded by tens and twenties sent in by ordinary folks who can"t wait to see him crack down on Wall Street abuses. What they don"t want ...
I was going to live-blog the debate, but it was so boring that I fell asleep before I could post it on Takimag. In any case, this was supposedly a debate about foreign policy, but more than half of it was taken up with the peculiar obsession of the insufferable Jim Lehr, of PBS, who manages to ...
If you think that FOX News"with its bleached-out blonde anchorbabes made up to look like mid-price hookers, and its braying neocon mouthpieces trumpeting the party line"is the televised voice of conservatism, then think again. Sean Hannity, Bill Kristol, et al. offer up plenty of ...
I love political conventions, in part because I remember the olden days, when there was some doubt as to their outcome. Nowadays, of course, party conventions are carefully choreographed events, as is the coverage. I"m watching MSNBC, out of habit, but their "reporting" is barely ...
“The fact that a great many Jewish neoconservatives"people like Joe Lieberman and the crowd over at Commentary"plumped for this war, and now for an even more foolish assault on Iran, raised the question of divided loyalties: using U.S. military power, U.S. lives and money, to make the ...
In what is surely an "only in America" phenomenon, the most patriotic holiday of the year celebrates the overthrow of the government. That says a lot about this country, or, rather, about the way it used to be. This time around, the Fourth merely underscores how far we have wandered, and ...
