The War on Pabst

In this selection from "World War I As Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals," Murray Rothbard connected the moralistic prohibitionism of the early "progressives" with the militaristic world-saving spirit of Wilsonian internationalism in a way that made me laugh...

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TV Says We Won, But My Father Died

A neighbor of mine, Hrag Vartanian, writes today in his blog about the NYT's Nicholas Kristof's Iraq Poetry Contest. One entry that particularly moved him was by a fourth grader from the South Bronx whose father apparently was killed in Iraq. I wonder what young...

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