Monthly Archives: January 2012

I take the title of my essay from Harold Bloom’s book title which neatly captures all of that is amiss with this essay by Mr. Brooks. I’ll take some key sentences and paragraphs and subject them to some examination and … Continue reading →

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David Brooks cares about the ‘little people’ like Maddie Parlier getting by, but aspiring to better herself. But Mr. Brooks likes his corporate allies and friends just a bit more than he cares for the welfare and aspirations of Ms. … Continue reading →

Is this essay Sol Stern seeks the root of the current revival of ‘antisemitism’ to it’s origin: the great Jewish thinker and Heidegger apologist Hannah Arendt. Here we have the latest installment of the current war on the policies and … Continue reading →

“The philosopher Michael Oakeshott once observed that it takes several generations to make a career. Interests, habits and lore accrue in families and shape those born into them.” This defense of the British hereditary aristocracy by Michael Oakshott is not … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/opinion/south-carolina-diarist.html?partner… “The other pleasure of covering campaigns is getting to play American Idol judge, evaluating the political performances. Mitt Romney is never going to be confused for Pericles on the stump. Every sigh and utterance is prescripted, so watching his … Continue reading →

Before I comment on David Brooks’ latest essay in the New York Times, let me just volunteer this thought on newspapers: there is nothing like holding a newspaper and thumbing through it’s pages, it is tactile, it is visceral, it … Continue reading →

In his latest essay, Leslie Gelb, through rhetorical sleight of hand, makes an attempt to appear as the voice of reason in the ‘debate’ before an actual attack on Iran, that has taken up so much political space and time, … Continue reading →

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/whats-race-got-to-do-with-i…   Lee Siegel proves his fealty to Modern Liberalism’s disdain of the Patriarchal Nostalgia of Mormonism and its addiction to 19th Century norms of free born white males: exercising power over all they control and own, the women and … Continue reading →