I sure do. And after all the shouting died, the propaganda against the Tea Party remains because it worked. And events like that are, as they say, how you get Trump. Which is the point made here: I still hear … Continue reading →
Nixon won 49 states and he was impeached. https://t.co/EyPHiQvKi9 — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 29, 2019 If you’re wondering who Jake Sherman is and why I’m picking on him: Jake Sherman is a senior writer for POLITICO and co-author of … Continue reading →
Another great article by Gary Saul Morson has been published in New Criterion. He’s the author who wrote a piece about Solzhenitsyn that I discussed previously here. This time Morson is writing about Lenin – or rather, about the thought … Continue reading →
Gary Saul Morson has written an extraordinary aticle for New Criterion. It’s hard to capture its flavor. I suggest you read the whole thing, if you haven’t already. I could excerpt almost any part of it, but I’ll choose this: … Continue reading →
A number of people have recommended this article by Christopher Caldwell that appeared in the Claremont Review of Books, entitled “Why Hasn’t Brexit Happened?” It’ well worth reading. A few excerpts: In Britain as elsewhere in the world, the struggle … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread: Thread: On Media Narratives 1. Once upon a time, the legacy media controlled the daily news narrative. There were three principal broadcast TV networks which took their nightly news cues from the NYT and, secondarily, … Continue reading →
In 1619, slavery was ubiquitous throughout the world. There was nothing surprising or unusual about it being brought to the Americas. Slavery has nothing to do with American exceptionalism or American aspirations or values, unlike the claims of the 1619 … Continue reading →
…is the fact that the Democrats were the party of slavery as well as the party of Jim Crow and segregation, and the Republicans were the anti-slavery party. If slavery is so very central to the entire story of America, … Continue reading →
By now you may have read something about the NY Times’ 1619 Project to rewrite American history as the story of racism. Not just racism as a part of American history—racism as the story, the root of the story, the … Continue reading →
Theory, that is. The funny thing about the ubiquity of conspiracy theories is that some of them are true. The trouble is figuring out which ones they might be, because the majority are not. Now that the Epstein death conspiracy … Continue reading →
…and China seems to me to hold the cards. I remember that, in the late 1990s when I heard that Hong Kong would ultimately be turned over to China, I got a chill of foreboding. Hong Kong was being sacrificed, … Continue reading →
I notice it constantly, even at times on conservative sites: white supremacist groups are routinely referred to as “far right.” Maybe I’ve even carelessly referred to them that way at times in the past. I actually don’t know. But at … Continue reading →