“The Eternal Struggle Between Paralytics and Epileptics”
May 17, 2008That’s Ortega y Gasset’s definition of history, according to Albert Camus’s 1951-1959 notebooks.
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The New Buchanan Book
May 14, 2008With a title like Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, Pat Buchanan’s new book might seem designed to court controversy. But that’s not the case, at least not as far as I have been able to tell from the first 100 pages. For one thing, “Unnecessary War” is not Buchanan’s phrase, it’s Churchill’s. Buchanan was [...]
The Revolution Reviewed
May 14, 2008The season of Kauffmaniana continues, as Bill takes a look at Ron Paul’s book over at Taki’s Magazine. Here’s a taste:
As for the word “isolationist,” which I’ve always thought had a nice pacific ring to it, Rep. Paul gives taxonomic reversal the old college try. He tags the unilateral bullies of the Bush administration “isolationists” [...]
It’s a Funny Name for a Blog
May 1, 2008Funnier than Tory Anarchist? Yes. The Nixon Center’s relatively new blog is called The New Nixon, complete with a picture of a smilin’ Tricky Dick in the upper-left corner.
Now On-Line: The Ron Paul Evolution
April 28, 2008My article on the Ron Paul campaign and the independent organizations and efforts springing up in its wake — including Young Americans for Liberty, Jonathan Bydlak’s Discover Scholars project, and a cadre of Ron Paul Republican candidates — is now on-line here.
I’m happy to report that one development since I wrote the piece is that [...]
Peter Hitchens Rethinks the Good War
April 24, 2008Peter Hitchens has recently read Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke and Patrick Buchanan’s forthcoming Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. The two books, particularly Buchanan’s, have compelled him to reconsider some of his assumptions about the Good War. Be sure to read the whole thing, but here’s a sample:
On a recent visit to the USA I [...]
Another Post Paleo Post
April 16, 2008Paul Gottfried extends and revises his remarks on the “post paleo” generation of the Right here. Helen Rittelmeyer of the Cigarette Smoking Blog comments on Paul’s original thread and some of the reactions it elicited.
Both Gottfried and Rittelmeyer note the Nietzschean interests of the postpaleos. Paul suggests that these, along with fewer inhibitions about “discussing [...]
Patriot Games
April 13, 2008Light updating for the past two days or so since I’ve been busily hammering out an essay on nationalism and patriotism for Taki’s Mag. Need to finish tonight, so I’ll postpone any substantial posts for a while longer yet.
Meanwhile, check out @TAC for new posts by Clark Stooksbury, Tom Piatak, Phil Giraldi, [...]
