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In Sunday’s NYT books section, Bill Keller wrote glowing review of John Carlin’s Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation. The book, Keller informed his readers, is about how Mandela used rugby, a sport that was once the very symbol of apartheid, to heal his country’s racial divisions. “There [...]
From Mark Royden Winchell’s William F. Buckley Jr. — this passage comes just after a discussion of Buckley’s support for the hiring of more black teachers:
Perhaps Buckley’s most extreme please for racial preference came in a January 13, 1970 article in Look in which he argued for the election of a Negro president “in 1980 [...]
“Are you telling me tens of millions of Americans are involved with al-Qaeda?” … “These are tens of millions of Americans who are not suspected of anything” — Sen. Patrick Leahy, then-ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 2006, on the news that telecom companies had handed domestic [...]
In this terrific podcast, Jeffrey Tucker of the Mises Institute talks about several great half-forgotten men of the Old Right, giants who stood against the New Deal and American interventionism abroad. Not only did figures such as Garet Garrett, Albert Jay Nock, John T. Flynn, and H.L. Mencken understand Franklin Roosevelt’s program as (in Garrett’s [...]
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I haven’t yet read David Freddoso’s new book The Case Against Barack Obama, but this is one political expose I can endorse sight unseen, since Freddoso, whom I’ve known for a few years, is a thoughtful conservative rather than a Republican hack. I expect his book will be a worthy companion to Matt Welch’s takedown [...]
Everybody seems to agree that Richard Perlstein’s book, “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus” was a very good debut, and a useful insight into the conservative movement’s ascendancy. But who would pay $131.09 for a paperback edition? That’s the lowest price on Amazon: other sellers are asking for as [...]
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Andrew Roberts, still apparently grooming himself as Bush’s ghost writer, has written a strange review of Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World for the First Post.
Most reviewers–including Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the latest issue of TAC–have stressed that, contrary to what the title might suggest, Zakaria’s outlook is not at all pessimistic about America’s future. Yet [...]
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I picked up a collection called Required Reading by Eugene McCarthy at the Book Eddy, Knoxville’s best book store, today. It is a collection of short pieces, mostly from newspapers, from the 1970s and 80s. One that stood out is called “Is America the World’s Colony” and was published in Policy Review in 1981. It [...]
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Last week, the presence of Andrew Roberts at a valedictory dinner for President Bush in London prompted rumors that Roberts–every neocon’s favorite British historian–was being lined up as a ghostwriter for Bush’s autobiography. We have discussed this possibility in the latest issue of TAC.
It was obvious, though, that Roberts’ sycophancy wouldn’t wait until the president [...]
I thought subscribers and more casual readers might want some comment about the decision to publish John Lukacs’s critical review of Pat Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. The treatment of the book presented a dilemma. I and most of those seriously involved with TAC are admirers of Pat Buchanan: I believe he was [...]
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