Not content with having done much to gin up a disastrous war in the Middle East, Andrew Sullivan joins the ranks of the New Cold Warriors in targeting Vladimir Putin as the neo-Stalin, implying that a Washington-based critic of Putin was attacked by the KGB even while...
What Goes Around …
The news that The New Republic is going bi-weekly has got to be good news all 'round. To begin with, the magazine has always been in the vanguard of the War Party: it heralded the onset of World War I, agitated for U.S. intervention in the world's second great...
Andrew Sullivan’s Underbelly — It Isn’t Pretty
Here's Andy Sullivan, the man who once denounced opponents of Bush's War as a "fifth column," continuing his strange metamorphosis: Here's a challenging essay by Michael Vlahos in the American Conservative, a magazine that for all its troubling underbelly, is taking...
George Will and the Conservatism We Lost
Here's George Will, the inventor (albeit not the chief practitioner) of "strong government conservatism," sniffing disdainfully at Ron Paul, Congress's one and only consistent advocate of good old-fashioned "small government conservatism," as "a cheerful...
People I’m Sick Of: Part III — Andrew Sullivan
I don't even have to ask if you're sick of Andrew Sullivan. Who isn't? Here he is reminding Condi Rice of her past opposition to open-ended interventionism, but what I want to know is: who is Sullivan to dredge up someone's old writings and point to their present-day...
People I’m Sick Of: Part II — Camille Paglia
I could write an entire series of blog posts around the theme "People I'm Sick Of." As a matter of fact, I think I will .... You can read the first entry in the series here. And while I'm on the subject, there's somebody else whose undeserved fame and political...
Arianna, Obama, and the Hollywood ‘Left’
Is anybody else as sick of Arianna Huffington as I am? She was obnoxious as an ostensibly conservative Republican, predictably bizarre as a California cultist, and now that she's the doyenne of the Hollywood trendy-wendy Left she's even more galling than ever. Check...
Whatever
In Alex Cockburn's Counterpunch, John Walsh complains that United for Justice and Peace, the old-line leftie antiwar umbrella organization, excluded anyone hostile to the Democratic party from the platform of its latest (and smallest) Washington demonstration. Ralph...
9/11 — What Did the Israelis Know?
A new piece by the talented Christopher Ketcham in Counterpunch relates a story well-known to longtime readers of Antiwar.com: we were, after all, the first to write about the Israeli connection to the events of 9/11. A month later, Carl Cameron came out with his...
Taki Goes Online
The amazing Taki Theodoracopulos has started a webzine, Taki's Top Drawer, a development that is sure to make waves from one end of the blogosphere to the other. The first issue features contributions from conservative academic Paul Gottfried, the delightful Taki...


