{"id":3468,"date":"2007-04-24T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T00:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/notes-and-asides\/"},"modified":"2007-04-24T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T01:40:19","slug":"notes-and-asides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/notes-and-asides\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes and Asides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/pf\/p-j032700.html\">noted <\/a>the growing convergence of left and right on various issues, from the war in Iraq to the fight in defense of civil liberties on the home front, and here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another proposition that is a part of this developing left-right consensus: the rise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/j111102.html\">Jonah Goldberg<\/a> as a right-wing commentator points to a qualitative degeneration of American conservatism. Yes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.takimag.com\/site\/article\/goldbergism_and_the_decline_of_the_right\/\">Goldbergism and the Decline of the Right<\/a><font size=\"2\">,&#8221; the latest installment of my column for Taki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Top Drawer.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that I really get a kick out of reading as well as writing for Taki Theodoracopulos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 spanking new website, because I get venture into topics I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t normally cover in this space, and I can frankly tell you that I enjoy the opportunity to let my hair down, so to speak, and write about what amuses me rather than what needs to be written about. Over the last few days I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done two radio interviews: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.freeny.org\/?p=1644\">go check out<\/a> my appearance on Jim Ostrowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new radio show on WNYmedia.net, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/justin-raimondo-5\/\">yet another interview<\/a> with our very own Scott Horton, on Antiwar.com Radio. Regarding the latter: well, yes, I was a little \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 loquacious, shall we say, but then again everybody has days like that, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6? Well, maybe not <em>quite <\/em>like that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also have a new piece coming out soon in <em>The American Conservative<\/em> on the upcoming trial of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two employees of AIPAC charged with passing U.S. secrets to Israel. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure if the editors are going to put it online \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and, yes, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m urging you once again to <a href=\"http:\/\/ezsub.net\/isapi\/foxisapi.dll\/main.sv.run?jt=starr_wc&#038;PUBID=503&#038;SOURCE=INET&#038;RDRID=&#038;SBTYPE=QN&#038;PGTP=S\"><em>subscribe to TAC.<\/em><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have noted the growing convergence of left and right on various issues, from the war in Iraq to the fight in defense of civil liberties on the home front, and here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another proposition that is a part of this developing left-right consensus: the rise of Jonah Goldberg as a right-wing commentator points to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}