Christopher Hitchens disses Lord Black, though his bile, the product of a feud two decades ago, seems tempered by his gradual convergence with the Borg ("I remember running into a very conservative gentleman in the corridors of the American Enterprise Institute a year...
From an account (in The New Republic) of a Hillary for President rally in New Hampshire: "One last footnote: The Clintons had no more enthusiastic cheerleaders than a small clutch of people who cheered them deliriously while mysteriously waving around a foreign flag....
A great letter from a reader: "Upon reading your article, 'The Politico’s Brazen Lies About Ron Paul', I came upon the idea that what the American political world needs is a website where us simpletons can keep track of who the bad guys are. I am not trying to be...
Documented in a series of in-depth interviews by The Nation with 50 combat veterans of the Iraq war from across the US.
The Republican smear machine is revving up its motors, getting ready to launch a typically vicious campaign against Ron Paul, the only real threat to their death-grip on the GOP. Since the first assault, a piece by Ryan Sager in the New York Sun, failed -- the charges...
It's been a busy week, and it's going to be an even busier weekend: I'll be speaking in Mountain View, California, this Saturday. Go here for information. I've also been blogging up a storm at Taki's Top Drawer -- go here, here, and here, for starters. Oh, and here's...
Andrew Sullivan comes down off his high horse long enough to answer my recent blog on Christopher Hitchens' 1976 article, recently unearthed and posted by the New Statesman, valorizing Saddam Hussein as "perhaps the first visionary Arab statesman since Nasser."...
David Beito calls him prophetic.
Turkmenistan: Central Asian Tyranny of the Future!
I get a lot of letters, and read them all. Sometimes I get one so smart that I wan to run it on the site as an article. Of course, we have "Backtalk," our letters-to-the-editor column, but perhaps I'd better start excerpting the smartest, most interesting letters, as...
