I haven’t yet read the book Triumph Forsaken, but it sounds like a fascinating so-called “revisionist” history of the Vietnam War. And this comment at the Amazon link treads familiar ground, does it not?: A key contributor to the downfall … Continue reading →
Here’s another of those perennial articles listing the blockbuster books that were initially rejected by publisher after publisher. I remember I used to own a book that was a collection of editors’ rejection letters for great classic and popular works. … Continue reading →
John Hinderaker points out how the latest study of the relation between gun control laws and homicide rates uses the statistics therein to make a certain policy point, and how they could just as easily be used to refute that … Continue reading →
I don’t usually just offer a list of links, but I every now and then there are a lot of stories and not enough time to write all I’d like about them. So here you go: Lots here about Rand … Continue reading →
…of those “dumb criminals” stories. Not just dumb, but out to lunch. Or maybe dinner.
Continue reading →That book of Conly’s is the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t it? Much fascinating discussion in yesterday’s thread, which is not even the first time we’ve discussed it (see also this and this). I especially recommend your wading through … Continue reading →
…for all these long years, that his obituary would feature the fact that he was the designer of the Edsel. My guess is that, at 96, he’d made his peace with that: Roy Brown Jr., a car designer for Ford … Continue reading →
I recently wrote about Sarah Conly’s newly-released book Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism here and here, so you’d think I’d be done with the dreadful thing. But a friend sent me a video interview with the author, and I couldn’t … Continue reading →
I’ve written about this topic before, and will probably do so again. I’m writing about it today because this piece by DrewM at Ace’s really resonated with me: The internecine fighting we see today on the right isn’t simply on … Continue reading →
…praises Chavez in their valedictories. Ed Driscoll lists a lot of the links here, thoughtfully saving me the distasteful task. Chief among them is President Jimmy Carter, who admits that Chavez had a couple of little flaws but was on … Continue reading →
…has died, according to Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro. Impossible as yet to tell what the repercussions will be: an end to tyranny there, or just a continuation under another leader? Fausta’s blog is a good place to go for … Continue reading →
Vali Nasr has written a book, a portion of which has been excerpted in Foreign Policy. His piece represents another curious effort to discredit Obama from the left, and is far more hard-hitting than Bill Keller’s. Nasr is a Tehran-born … Continue reading →