‘Happy Abu Ghraib Day’

[H]ow far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? - Gen. Dwight Eisenhower Arthur Silber documents the mass scamper over the cliff of civilization. A sample (and hardly the worst) from Rush Limbaugh's show of April...

With the Radio On …

I've overcome my aversion to doing radio sufficiently to schedule two upcoming interviews: a half hour on Cincinnati's WAIF-FM, this Thursday at 1 p.m. (you can listen live), and a full hour with the incomparable Scott Horton on Saturday at 1 p.m. [Note: We're talking...

No Peaking

People are getting worked up about peak oil theory. I'll reply to some of the deluge of mail in the next day or two but first, three things: (1) Lawnorder, the blogger at Daily Kos who I wrote about in "Oil and Instinct," has written a follow-up posting ("Peak Oil...

In case you think Yaron Brook is unrepresentative of the dork death cult known as Objectivism, here's my conversation with Robert Cons, Objectivist: (unedited, all emphasis original):CONS: Any person who asks, "What is Objectivism?", should do a little reading and...

Would You Buy This Car on eBay?

I meant to write this post about six weeks ago, so forgive me if anyone's asked the question already, but: Would you buy this car on eBay? Before all the warbloggers gave their stamp of credulity to US government photos of the car in which Italian agent Nicola...

Attention SF Bay Area Readers

If you are an Antiwar.com reader living near our home office in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’d like to ask for your help! We are looking for a volunteer to help us with processing donations. The job isn’t for thrill-seekers; it would mostly involve data entry, and...

Would You Buy This Car on eBay?

I meant to write this post about six weeks ago, so forgive me if anyone's asked the question already, but: Would you buy this car on eBay? Before all the warbloggers whooped and hollered about US government photos of the car in which Italian agent Nicola Calipari was...