Ron Unz has a good article on the American media: what it covers, what it doesn’t cover, and how it covers what it does cover. This juicy passage on the Iraq War…
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The Daily Caller wags its finger at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity because of the two libertarian professors it has on its board, Butler Shaffer and Walter Block. (Thanks to Lew Rockwell for the link.) The problems with…
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To be attacked by a Gore Vidal, or an H.L. Mencken, one of the great wordsmiths of American criticism, while surely unpleasant, must have been oddly exhilarating for the poor…
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Over the past several weeks I have mentioned that I’ve been at work on a K-12 homeschool curriculum. That wasn’t the whole story. Today I can tell you the whole story: it…
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When you debate libertarianism or the free market on the Internet, you are guaranteed to hear, in addition to the inevitable roads objection, “Why, ‘monopolists’ would dominate the world! Wherever…
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Michael Brendan Dougherty writes: Liturgical traditionalists (myself included) can only be depressed by this election–it is almost the worst result possible for those of us who think the new liturgy lost the theological…
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This Glenn Greenwald column is worth returning to in light of the Bradley Manning guilty plea. An excerpt: The sadistic conditions to which he was subjected for 10 months – intense solitary confinement , at one…
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I read this Pat Buchanan column yesterday, and I’m glad to see Lew Rockwell linking to it today. Here’s what it means to eviscerate an intellectual opponent: On Monday, [the Washington Post‘s…
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I hate to say “I told you so,” but what else did anyone expect from a guy who endorsed Rick Perry for president? Were we expecting anything other than a…
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