Surely if we build more roads, schools, and hospitals in Afghanistan, this sort of thing won’t happen — right? That is the bedrock assumption that the learned analysts make, and it is draining American resources. No one, of course, is considering the possibility that no matter how helpful we are…
People who identify with the Left often ask the following question: How is it possible for decent human beings not to be progressive like us? How can they not share our concern for social justice or the better world we are attempting to create? The answers progressives give themselves are the following: Ignorance clouds the [...]
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I have seen “South Park” and I found its anti-censorship message morally refreshing (it is beyond my ken that any conservative could find this film offensive on conservative grounds). What are the implications of Bennett’s argument, except that he considers it worth delivering our right to choose what we can see and know to the [...]
Antonio Gramsci once described the revolutionary temperament as a pessimism of the intellect and an optimism of the will. For the veterans of my radical generation, the balance was tipped when we sustained what seemed like irreparable injury to our sense of historical possibility. It was not even so much the feeling that the left [...]
This will make everything better, you see. They just have to understand each other’s religions. But as Pamela Geller points out, the plan is inconsistent and strange. If there is a possibility that she will not be returned home, how is it that they will discuss religion when she is…
On Monday’s O’Reilly Factor, Mike Huckabee made his first television appearance since serial felon Maurice Clemmons (allegedly) murdered four police officers on Sunday morning. Since the murders, the media have lambasted Fox News analyst and former Arkansas governor Huckabee for having commuted Clemmons’ life sentence back in 2000. I had been curious as [...]
Ron Radosh October 7th, 2009 11:48 am Is Bill Ayers Now Playing Conservatives? Why He Should Not be Taken Seriously In October 2008, Jack Cashill penned a much discussed blog, in which he suggested the possibility that Bill Ayers actually was the ghost writer for Barack Obama’s powerful memoir, Dreams From My Father. Later, he wrote yet another blog, reporting about many who sent him more material that they thought would corroborate his original suspicions about authorship of Obama’s first memoir.
