Put a sock in it, Plaut

I’m having such fun with those wacky craaaaazy zonked-out jokesters over at Frontpage — the neoconservative equivalent of Ken Kesey’s Prankster Bus — that I can hardly stand it. First it’s the screaming headline on Horowitz’s blog...

Herbert Spencer Was Right

I note that Antiwar.com has been under attack, lately, from the more whacked-out wing of the ostensibly "conservative" movement, and under that general rubric I have to include the ravings of one Tom Palmer, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, who...

Stephen Schwartz — a lyrical biography

Editorial Note: For those curious to know a few biographical details about Stephen Schwartz (and see below), here is a great little poem that appeared on a Sufi discussion site around the time of the Kosovo war. All the links are inserted by myself: WHO IS THIS...

Naming Names

You know your enemies are getting desperate when they start attacking … your name. Glenn Reynolds snarks: “Dennis Raimondo? It doesn’t have quite the same ring, does it?” One could go on in this vein: would you rather read a book by Ayn Rand...

All About Liberventionists, Neocons and Liberal Hawks

Today on the Weekend Interview Show I’ll be discussing the red-state fascists and liberventionists with LRC’s Anthony Gregory in the first hour. Second hour, the guest will be Tom Barry of the International Relations Center to talk about the neocons and...