Daily Archive: July 27, 2010

So, let me get this straight… Activist accuses ideological opponents of racism on basis of highly misleading video clip taken completely out of context.  NOT RACE-BAITING. Target of racism accusation based on highly misleading...

At this point in the book, it’s becoming more evident to me that Chris Hedges is a cultural conservative of a fairly traditionalist bent. Some readers might overlook this because he’s a progressive, but...

It’s striking that in recent years America has become familiar with a major theme in Euripides: namely, the war that starts after victory is declared. I proposed this as the climate in which Hecuba...

Just to add some more items to Jason’s list of “managed ignorance” in the realm of conservative media: The “Mosque at Ground Zero,” which is neither at Ground Zero nor even really a “mosque,”...

I got nuthin’ right now – any suggestions on something you’d all like me to write about?

Now you can follow me on Twitter. I plan to use Twitter only to consolidate a list of links for content already published elsewhere (here, the Washington Examiner, Cato@Liberty, etc).

Out in real America, I strongly suspect that there’s a class of people that never got the whole story about Shirley Sherrod. They heard that she was a racist against white people and that...

In my first post in this series, I claimed that Charles Hill, Yale’s “Diplomat in Residence,” had won “uncritical, almost fulsome praise.” You can strike the “almost.”  According to Edward Luttwak’s review, Hill’s book...