Brian Doherty soothes our fears about the Bush administration--or does he? Fears and anxieties about American empire don't need to be rooted in any perceived fever swamp, where only openly sinister and nakedly pecuniary motives push American foreign policy....
Brendan O'Neill takes a swing at antiwar legalists: The focus on the pre-war intelligence and legality suggests that while some in the anti-war camp have technical quibbles about the current war in Iraq, they do not take a principled, political stance against Britain...
From Editor & Publisher: A new study of how the media has covered the issue of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), released today, concludes, "Many stories stenographically reported the incumbent administration's perspectives on WMD, giving too little critical...
Left and Right are moribund designations, but so far as the policies of the self-identified go, I must disagree with Gus diZerega's assertion that Leftists oppose the draft. Though most (not all) on the Left presumably oppose a military draft, many have a fondness for...
As mentioned earlier, the Web is abuzz with talk of the Libertarian Purity Test. Let's forget the purity bit for a minute and talk about the ideas. My main gripe is that everyone seems to be posting scores instead of talking about specific areas of assent/dissent,...
I'm referring, of course, to Victor Davis Hanson's two hour appearance on C-Span's Book TV Sunday evening. After reading his essays in National Review for some time, I was paying close attention to the corners of his mouth for rivulets of foam. All in vain, since...
From the typewriter of--gasp!-- Bill Buckley himself: It is being claimed, ever more widely, that neocon policies are determined by the advantages they bring, manifest or putative, to the State of Israel. Patrick Buchanan, in the current American Conservative,...
You do understand that Albright did lie, innocent people did (and continue to) die, the Clinton administration and NATO did sex-up intelligence about Yugoslavia and did misrepresent Milosevic as the new Hitler, and that our Balkan adventure is indeed a quagmire, don't...
Another delightful article on NRO today from Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime Communist thug in charge of Romania's DIE, current neoconservative flak. The typical Pacepa essay, I've noticed, opens with a brief "trust me, I've hung with some bad mofos" hook to reel the Tom...
