A few things to read that other people wrote: Stephen Green points out how Krugman tries to make capitalism pay for the sins of statists. How Richard Nixon forced the North Vietnamese to sign a peace, and why Bob Beckel is mad. RS McCain ponders the ineffable WTF-ness of South Carolina politics. Jeff Goldstein respectfully… Read More Rocking the Links
Which is odd, as his novels have always made me fear the future. (h/t: Instapundit) It’s an ancient, somewhat universal human attitude, and often they give it full voice. But it’s been being given voice for thousands and thousands of years. You can go back and see the ancient Greeks doing it. You know, “All… Read More William Gibson Distrusts the Past
This much. (h/t Instapundit) John Stout served with the Irish Guards armoured division which raced to Arnhem to capture a key bridge. He also fought in the Battle of the Bulge, ending the war as a commando. On his return home to Cork, however, he was treated as a pariah. “What they did to us… Read More How Much Do The Irish Hate Great Britain?
Dan Riehl doesn’t like like Thomas DiLorenzo very much at all. But he provides concerted proof — if proof were needed — of the neo-confederate sensibilities I found myself disliking about DiLorenzo’s book on Hamilton.
Walter Russel Mead has an excellent column on the continuing reverberations of the great Hamilton-Jefferson Divide. 200-plus years later, the argument is still not over. In Osawatomie and beyond, President Obama will run for re-election as a Hamiltonian and a custodian of the 20th century progressive state. He will argue that modest and careful reforms,… Read More Hamilton’s Blues
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