Kolakowski on Marxism
Tony Judt reviews Leszek Kolakowski’s Main Currents of Marxism, My Correct Views on Everything, and Karl Marx ou l’esprit du monde in the New York Review of Books. (Kolakowski’s Main Currents of...
View ArticleThe ‘God that Failed’ is Dead, Now What?
Slavoj Žižek, in the London Review of Books, contemplates the peculiar position of today’s Left after the collapse of Communism. One of the clearest lessons of the last few decades is that capitalism...
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Preemption Underway by Obama Camp
Michelle Malkin defined “Swiftboating” correctly But democrats still insist on pretending that charges about John Kerry made in the course of the 2004 Presidential Campaign by Naval veterans were...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Community Organizer
Why did mortgage lenders start making all those high risk loans? Stanley Kurtz explains that the radical left successfully combined agitation with official federal policy to make them do exactly that....
View ArticleObama Shared an Office With Ayers
For at least three years, Verum Serum reports. Michael Klonsky was there, too.
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“A Charismatic Demagogue”
Mark R. Levin, at the Corner, warns Americans against a charismatic demagogue who is also a hardened ideologue. Even the media are drawn to the allure that is Obama. Yes, the media are liberal. Even...
View Article2002 Interview: Obama on Redistribution of Wealth
Obama thought it was a darned shame that the Warren Court didn’t address redistribution of wealth to African Americans. “It wasn’t that radical. It never broke free from the essential constraints that...
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Caracas on the Potomac
The Obama Campaign has several times punished or tried to intimidate critics in the press and even ordinary citizens like Joe the Plumber. Tapscott predicts that you’ll see a lot more of this, and...
View ArticleSlavoj Žižek: Deadly Jester
Adam Kirsch, in the New Republic, warns of the rise of another philosophic defender of bad causes, one who has perfected the technique of using a soupçon of wit to disguise the real flavor of the...
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American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper
Pravda columnist Stanislav Mishin enjoys the last laugh as the American free enterprise system is eliminated by the Obamessiah’s commissars. It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the...
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Obama’s Covert Revolution
Tom Suhadolnik explains how Barack Obama is simply setting aside conventional bankruptcy law in order to nationalize the automobile industry while moving simultaneously to nationalize the financial...
View ArticleWe’re a Banana Republic Now, Folks
A small Latin American country actually stands up to imminent dictatorship. Its Supreme Court defends the country’s Constitution and its Army enforces the law, removing from office the president who...
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Obama’s Stimulus Scores Key Endorsement
Gennady Zyuganov and friend Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov sees eye to eye with Barack Obama on economic policy. How totally surprising! Foreign Policy: “I said that I had thoroughly...
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Leszek Kolakowski, October 23, 1927 – July 17, 2009
Polish philosopher and intellectual historian Leszek Kolakowski passed away last Friday in Oxford where he had taught for many years. Coming of age during the Nazi Occupation, Kolakowski became an...
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The Scourge of Contemporary Historiography
Eugéne Delacroix (1798-1863), Atilla suivi de ses hordes, foule aux pieds libéralisme, Marxisme, et pacifisme, Bibliothèque, Palais Bourbon, Paris, 1843-47 Edward Luttwak, reviewing in the New...
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Progressive Anglican Church Lampoons Christmas
The Venerable Glynn Cardy, Vicar of St. Matthew-in-the-city an Anglican parish in Aukland, New Zealand, is undoubtedly a happy camper this holiday season, having attracted round the world news...
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Is Obama a Socialist?
Jonah Goldberg addresses in a serious essay the commonly heard debate on whether terms like Marxist and Socialist may be accurately applied to Barack Obama. [I]s it correct, as an objective matter, to...
View ArticleEconomics and Crime
Times are hard and crime is down. How can that be? Liberals have always understood that crime is produced by economic hardship and deprivation. More government assistance, more redistribution,...
View ArticleWhat Is a “Progressive?”
Gallup polling reveals widespread public uncertainty about the “progressive” political label—a label recently embraced by no less than Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. While Kagan described her...
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