In the wake of the president’s speech earlier this week, during which he attempted to sell his intervention in Libya, leftist commentators have seized upon one of his stated justifications and flaunted it as evidence that he really does think America exceptional. However, the exceptionalism they’re talking about has nothing to do with the historical concept.
Tyranny of Singular Thought: Deciding Who to Kill
May 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
America is entering a new era, subjugation to a tyranny of singular thought.
Let us heed the warnings preserved for us through History…
[N]o countries need associations more — to prevent either despotism of parties or the arbitrary rule of a prince — than those with a democratic social state. …if private people did not artificially and temporarily create something [...]
The Marijuana and Conservatism Debate, Part 2: Counterculture – by FrontPagemag.com
December 29, 2009 By 11 Comments
Are the Left and the Counterculture Synonymous?
The Countculturalists and Gitmo North
December 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Editor’s note: Click here for a collection of the previous exchanges between Pajamas Media’s Mary Grabar and NewsReal’s David Swindle in this dialogue regarding marijuana legalization, conservatism, and the counterculture.
David, thank you for letting me reply once more.
You’re right:
“It’s not pot-smoking counterculturalists that are sending Guantanamo detainees to Illinois.”
But the [...]
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French public intellectuals have a reputation—well-deserved—for being socialists, Marxists, or Trotskyists. One thinks in this regard of popular figures like Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, and Simone de Beauvoir, all with fan clubs on American campuses. Some French thinkers, however, have carried forward another intellectual tradition, that of classical liberalism—pro-democracy and pro-market—and running from [...]
