The Yankee Cowboys’ Wars

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of our last Yankee president The Wall Street Journal published an article by Christopher Hitchens, “Where’s the Aura?”. Hitchens is glad that the Kennedy cult is dying, and, having grown up in...

Economics of War

People from all over the political spectrum hate Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man, with its naïve progressivist-historicism, its post–Cold War /pre–Sept. 11 triumphalism, etc., so imagine my surprise when I started reading it and enjoying it (while of...

An Inconvenient and Problematic Holiday

Armistice Day and the Empire Remarks delivered at Community Church of Boston, November 9, 2025 (transcript edited for clarity and corrections). Thank you so much for having me again. It means a lot to get asked to speak to this group. Smedley Butler was just...