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It’s as if Herman Kahn had never died. The mild mannered thinker of the unthinkable reappears as the cartoonisly bellicose academic Tom Nichols.? Or could it be Dr. Strangelove, or one of the other hawkish characters in Kubrick’s classic satire? … Continue reading →

Ah! Is there nothing more satisfying that reading BHL as he builds his case against the Hebdo Dissenters! It isn’t as if they have some how broken the rules of democratic society by dissenting? Or is that just the problem? … Continue reading →

There is a lot of real estate between Singapore and France! Perhaps, that is why it was so easy for J.F. to write his dissent on the PEN dissenters? Or is it very easy to see that Charlie Hebdo’s attack … Continue reading →

One can only marvel at this ‘review’ of H.W. Brand’s Reagan:The Life, after all, public relations ruled this man’s career from the movies to politics, and even in death, he relies on his hagiographers to homogenize his politics, into line … Continue reading →

Larchmont has written a very cogent reply to Mr. Barber’s essay on the European Populists. Let me presume to add another dimension to the debate, which is ignored at The Financial Times and it’s sister publication The Economist: the utter … Continue reading →

During the Watts Riots I watched the fires on Alameda near Imperial Blvd., from my sister’s second floor apartment on Fernwood Ave. and State Street, in Lynwood California in 1965. With my two brothers in law, both armed with rifles … Continue reading →

In sum what we have from Mr. Aspden is a lengthy extemporizing  on the Lazy Southern Tier of Europe: Greece,Italy,Spain,Portugal etc. vs. the mercantile virtues of the Anglo-Saxons and Gauls that make up the Northern Tier of productive virtuous entrepreneurs. … Continue reading →

The Republicans have a penchant for  placing their most reactionary political curmudgeons in the United Nations ambassadorship, because they utterly despise an institution, whose godmother was Eleanore Roosevelt. Recall the verbose, bellicose Jeane Kirkpatrick? The Liberal Internationalist baggage is too … Continue reading →

You’ve got to give it to Ms. Clinton, at least her face doesn’t look like it’s been freshly ironed like Ms. Fiorina’s! Ms. Clinton’s face is jowly and a bit puffy, like a woman her age! Or more to the … Continue reading →