Bill Kauffman on secession and empire, from Orion. (And a hat tip to LRC.)
I’m blogging on the fly from a Starbucks in New Haven, Connecticut. I’m sure hipsters do this all the time, but it feels pretty strange to me — especially since my connection isn’t very reliable and I expect to get kicked [...]
Sorry for the lack of updates — posts over the next week or so are going to remain pretty sparse. The good news is that some larger projects of mine are moving along reasonably well. Peter Stanlis’s forthcoming Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher, which I’ve been editing, is coming out later in the summer, [...]
Powell was too powerful (as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that is), while most of his predecessors and all of his successors have been utterly feckless. So let’s get rid of the JCS, says Andrew Bacevich.
See also Bacevich’s “More Troops, More Troubles,” on the bipartisan folly of super-sizing the Army and Marine [...]
I had to double-check the URL when I read this to make sure it wasn’t the Onion or some kind of spoof site. But no, this really is a Pentagon press release calling for Congress to revive something called the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM — how lovely), which would offer [...]
I haven’t read ‘em yet, but here’s Kevin Phillips’s take from Sunday’s NY Times Book Review.
I spent last week attending David Gordon’s seminar on political philosophy (from Plato to Rawls, Nozick, and Rothbard) at the Mises Institute. You can hear the lectures on-line here. Not only does Dr. Gordon marvelously integrate material appropriate for both neophytes and those already well-versed in the history of political thought, he also successfully untangles [...]
Gerald Russello’s The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk is out now from the University of Missouri Press. Don’t let the title dissuade you; Russello’s book isn’t an attempt to make Kirk trendy, it’s a serious look at how Kirk’s thought intersects with such figures as Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jean-Francois Lyotard, as well as others like [...]
A new AP-Ipsos poll shows that if Fred Thompson gets into the race for the GOP nomination, Mitt Romney, the richest and biggest fundraiser of the pack, falls to fourth place. I had been wondering whether Thompson would draw more votes from Romney or Giuliani; now we know. Giuliani leads with 27 percent, followed [...]
My essay on Peter Viereck is now out, in the June 18 issue of The American Conservative. It doesn’t thoroughly address the points Will Hay and Daniel Larison (among others) raised a few months back after I blogged on Viereck, but the piece gives some indication of why I find Viereck valuable, despite his flaws.
The [...]
