…and coming to you soon. Andrew Bacevich, Anders Strindberg, Scott McConnell, Stewart Nusbaumer, and Martin van Creveld on the Israel-Lebanon War; W. James Antle looks at Lieberman and the partisan polarization over the war; Wayne Merry warns the U.S. against repeating France and Britain’s Suez follies; Michael Brendan Dougherty offers a Burnhamite take on Guatamalan [...]
From Kelly Jane Torrance’s fascinating interview with Mark Helprin (be sure to read the whole thing here):
MH: …I gave a speech that lasted 45 minutes or an hour, followed by a long question period. And one of the questions was about the democracy initiative, about changing Iraq into a democracy, and I am on record [...]
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza looks at recent polling data for signs of whether there’s a Democratic wave coming this November — and, more importantly, how big it might be. Most notable are the results he reports from an NPR poll (undertaken by a Democratic firm, it should be said) of voter sentiment in the [...]
NRO’s Corner is all atwitter about Heather Mac Donald’s piece for The American Conservative’s sympoisum on Left and Right. The NROdniks seem especially exercised about the notion that conservatism nowadays might be crippling itself by alienating atheists and agnostics. For my part, I certainly hope something cripples nationalist “conservatism,” though I don’t think it’s likely [...]
Light posting for the nonce as I hurriedly catch up on a few neglected projects. One of those, my review of Jeremy Lott’s In Defense of Hypocrisy, should be in the next TAC, out in two weeks or so.
Theodore Kaczynski’s belongings are being auctioned off, including his books. His library has a pretty strong collection of Roman and Russian literautre and history — and not as many survivalist handbooks as you might expect. I don’t think I’d find much need for The Mushroom Hunter’s Field Guide, but I could perhaps use a copy [...]
Here’s the link to TAC’s feature on what, if anything, “left” and “right,” “conservative” and “liberal” mean today.
P.S. That link takes you to the whole symposium as one document. The main page has an index to the individual essays.
A quick but surprisingly useful account from Sidney Blumenthal — “he became scornful of disagreement, parading himself as a moral paragon to whom voters should be privileged to pay deference. The elevation of his sanctimony was accompanied by the loss of his political sense.” Check out the whole piece, which also looks at Connecticut’s pivotal [...]
Joe Lieberman’s loss in Tuesday’s Democratic primary might not be a great blow to President Bush or the GOP — I wish it were, but that Democratic primary voters in one of the more liberal states in the country chose an antiwar candidate over the Bush-kissed incumbent doesn’t necessarily tell us much about how the [...]
I had the same reaction David Franke did when I saw Byron York’s NRO scarepiece about the threat of Democrats impeaching President Bush: that’s one more reason to vote for ‘em. A big one.
Meanwhile, in addition to running as an independent “Democrat” (that’s Joespeak for “Republican”) for the Senate in Connecticut, maybe Loserman should hedge [...]