Anti-Interventionism in American Literature
Posted on March 1st, 2010 by Daniel McCarthy
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Carl Oglesby Was Right
Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Daniel McCarthy
The tail end of last week was a busy time for TAC staff. Thursday, which was also the first day of CPAC, was our print date. I made it to the conclave just long enough to emcee Thomas DiLorenzo’s talk, “Lincoln on Liberty: Friend or Foe?”, before hotfooting it back to the office for a [...]
Filed under: Ideology, Philosophy, The Left, War
Ballard and Buchanan
Posted on December 26th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
In his autobiography Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, J.G. Ballard raises the question Pat Buchanan asks in Churchill, Hitler, and the “Unnecessary War”:
Should we [i.e., Britain] have gone to war in 1939, given how ill-prepared we were, and how little we did to help Poland, to whose aid Neville Chamberlain had committed us when [...]
Small Wars Aren’t Good Wars
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Christopher Buckley’s 1983 Esquire essay on his ambiguous feelings about not going to Vietnam — referenced by R.J. Stove in this comment thread — is included in Buckley’s splendid collection Wry Martinis. The book also contains a follow-up, “Incoming,” written in the Washington Post and responding to the avalanche of mail Buckley received about the [...]
Filed under: War
The Best Democrat Since Grover Cleveland?
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Maybe. I don’t agree with Bob Conley on trade, but he’s antiwar, pro-life, anti-neocon, anti-Patriot Act, and to the right of just about any Democrat you can think of since Larry McDonald. The South Carolina Senate nominee is having a fundraiser in the D.C. area on Saturday — 12:30-3:30 pm in McLean, Virginia. ($50 suggested [...]
Filed under: Politics, Uncategorized, War, events
Hitchens, Buchanan, and World War II
Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
The Good Hitchens, Peter, has already weighed in on Pat Buchanan’s new book, Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, and now the Bad Hitchens, Christopher, takes his turn. There’s much tripe in his review of the book for Newsweek, but this bit of offal is especially nauseous:
he commits important sins of omission that can [...]
And Pat Buchanan, Too
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Personnel Is Policy
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Some libertarians (and Libertarians) have had doubts about Bob Barr’s antiwar credentials. Lately he’s been sounding the right notes — calling for a prompt withdrawal from Iraq and no U.S. bases in the country, for example — but suspicions linger in certain quarters. Since won’t be president, the question is more or less moot, but [...]
Jim Webb: Better Than Bob Barr on the Drug War?
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
I’m leaning towards voting for Barr come November. But if Obama picks Virginia Sen. Jim Webb as his running mate, I might have to vote Democratic. Browsing through Webb’s new book, A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America, I see that Webb has a reasonably sound view on the drug war. After [...]