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Don't Be Surprised | 17.11.07 | My question to other Jews for Ron Paul is this: Why would you expect the RJC to behave any differently from the way it does? Like the NAACP, the Armenian Assembly of America, and La Raza, it is a group of ethnic whiners organized to influence foreign and domestic policies.
Recognizing Enemies | 15.11.07 | As I have stressed in the past, it is an essential part of the neoconservative strategy to dehumanize their rightwing opposition, while maintaining good relations with their talking partners on the left.
From Lincoln Republican to Neocon | 29.09.07 | Although Bill Hawkins and I have not agreed on all political and historical questions, until this week I continued to respect him as a principled, intelligent person.
Forms of Mass Murder | 28.08.07 | This piece of corrective history is not intended to diminish the horror of what really happened. Over a million hapless Armenians were slaughtered or driven out into the desert to die of hunger and thirst. If Armenians were not the victims of "genocide, they were certainly the victims of what R.J. Rummel has called "democide," the indiscriminate slaughter of large numbers of people by a bloodthirsty enemy.
The Neoconning of the American Right | 13.08.07 | Devotees of LewRockwell.com are strongly urged to purchase and read my latest book – Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right – which Palgrave-Macmillan has just brought out. Since the neocon-liberal powers that be are not likely to call attention to this work, even for the purpose of insulting me, self-praise may be necessary for generating interest.
John Zmirak's Guides for Bad Catholics | 05.07.07 | Note: I would not be raising this censure if John’s books were what I was led to believe they were. There were in fact several editors who expressed surprise that I showed any interest in these volumes. They assumed these guides for "bad Catholics" were much too "light" to merit discussion as a serious investigation of religious-historical themes. But such a judgment is clearly off the mark. Zmirak takes on big questions and is usually up to the challenge. He even defends against his more vehement critics the controversial French Archbishop Marcel LeFebvre.
MLK as Twentieth-Century Jesus | 12.01.07 | A young friend has just sent me the program for the celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday that will take place next week at Kenyon College. The unifying theme is "Martin Luther King, Was He a Twentieth-Century Jesus," a key question that one is led to believe should be answered in the affirmative.
It Was Worse Than Taft Imagined | 06.01.07 | One of the first American statesmen who openly criticized the postwar trials in Germany (which had a less-publicized counterpart in Tokyo for defeated Japanese leaders) was Robert Taft. In a controversial address given at Kenyon College in October 1946, Taft noted that the "Nuremberg Trials violate the fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute." Furthermore, the proceedings that were going on showed "a spirit of vengeance."
A Lament for Lost Freedom | 03.01.07 | There was a time when most American intellectuals seemed agreed on the need for open debate about political and philosophical questions.
Tarnished Medals | 19.12.06 | The mention of Paul Johnson as a recipient of the Medal of Freedom also made me think of his son Daniel, another kept journalist, who is about to launch, with Miriam Gross, a former assistant to Melvin Lasky at Encounter, a British equivalent of the Weekly Standard. A prominent Zionist and a London metal-trader, Alan Bekhor, is contributing to the project now underway an initial installment of 6 million pounds. I wish his enterprise every possible success, on the grounds that the British deserve this American import, for having pushed us into World War One.
Kathy Is Correct | 07.12.06 | This may no longer be the case in terms of the way Americans understand political polarities. While the Left rails against the bogus Right (that is, the neoconservatives) as the sponsors of a military state that is taking away popular liberties, it knows where its real domestic enemy is to be found. The media Left lurches fitfully into attack mode against the Militia Men as rightwing extremists, a reaction that is never apparent when it discusses the Black Panthers or Hispanic racial nationalists.
Feeling Unnecessarily Guilty | 28.06.06 | Although it is commendable that the Times has given front-page coverage to the recently published American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (June 22, 2006), it might have been even better if you had presented the work more accurately.
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