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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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Tom Piatak, in his post of May 23, has already commented on the peculiar last paragraph of John Lukacs’s review of Pat Buchanan’s book on World War II. Piatak notes that, contrary to Lukacs, it isn’t unusual for someone to think a regime evil, yet oppose waging war against it; Lukacs himself held this [...]
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Following Scott’s indirect suggestion that we hang the men behind the Iraq war, we learn that George Monbiot, a Guardian columnist, has tried to execute a citizen’s arrest on John Bolton at a literary festival in England. He failed.
I can’t find footage of the stunt, but if the video is out we should put [...]
As the blogosphere’s commentary on former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book slows a bit, it seems that amongst conservative bloggers two opinions have developed on the integrity of McClellan’s work. In one camp is the majority of “movement conservatives” that feel this book can be written off as the work of a [...]
John Lukacs, historian and crank, has penned a strange review of Pat Buchanan’s most recent book. It is no surprise that Lukacs doesn’t like Buchanan’s book, since Buchanan has profaned Lukacs’ idol, Winston Churchill. The principal difference between the two men is that Buchanan sees Communism as having been a greater threat than Nazism, whereas [...]
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I was saddened to learn that occasional TAC contributor Mark Royden Winchell died last Thursday. Winchell is perhaps best known for his studies of Southern literary figures such as Donald Davidson and Cleanth Brooks, though he was also the author of a highly regarded volume about William F. Buckley Jr. ISI had just brought out [...]
Ezra Klein writes interestingly about the Kindle—Amazon’s new(ish) electronic reading device, the reader’s answer to the iPod.
The obvious, important question: will the Kindle kill the book? Klein doesn’t say for sure, but he is very impressed by the screen technology,
Imagine turning on your TV only to see the sky—not a broadcast of the sky, but [...]
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There are quite a few new titles out at the moment that should be of interest to conservatives who enjoy TAC. At ISI’s on-line journal, First Principles, Bill Kauffman reviews Daniel J. Flynn’s A Conservative History of the American Left, a book about which Bill was skeptical at first — “I’m in for it,” he [...]
News of B.J. Lawson’s victory in North Carolina is very encouraging indeed — and what a margin! Lawson is a sterling (or maybe, as a nod to monetary issues, I should say auric) Ron Paul Republican and antiwar conservative. He faces an uphill battle in the Fall against incumbent Democrat David Price, who has been [...]