Three paragraphs from Bill Kauffman’s column in the latest issue of The American Conservative: The War Party called the Peace Party Nazis in 1941, Communists in 1951, Soviet dupes in 1961, dirty hippies in 1971 … must I go on? In 2011, those who heed George Washington’s counsel to seek “peace and harmony with all” [...]
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No one was barred from the conversation back when there was a conversation
Posted by acilius on July 19, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/07/19/no-one-was-barred-from-the-conversation-back-when-there-was-a-conversation/
The American Conservative, June 2010
I’m a strange sort of American, one of a handful who has reached middle age without ever having read To Kill a Mockingbird or seen the movie based on it. Evidently Bill Kauffman also avoided the novel in high school, but has since read it repeatedly and “seen the movie 20 times.” He makes a fine case [...]
Posted by acilius on April 29, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/04/29/the-american-conservative-june-2010/
The American Conservative, May 2010
Can left-wing opponents of the American Empire join with right-wing defenders of the Old Republic to build an effective antiwar movement in the USA? Fourteen authors, including leftists like Paul Buhle and Matthew Yglesias and rightists like Paul Gottfried and John Lukacs, consider the question. The cover image, representing a face-off between Barack Obama and [...]
Posted by acilius on April 12, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/04/12/the-american-conservative-may-2010/
The American Conservative, October 2009
The cover may suggest an alarmist piece about Pakistan. The article actually in the issue, though, is precisely the opposite. Granting that Pakistan is an important country that has very serious problems, it asserts that there is no chance that it will break up, fall into the hands of Osama bin Laden, or launch a [...]
Posted by acilius on September 9, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/09/09/the-american-conservative-october-2009/
The American Conservative, 23 March 2009
Bill Kauffman takes on the idea of a federal department of Arts and Culture, a proposal long championed by someone he admires, Quincy Jones. Kauffman quotes the painter John Sloan, who in 1944 said, “Sure, it would be fine to have a Ministry of Fine Arts in this country. Then we’d know where the enemy is.” [...]
Posted by acilius on March 20, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/20/the-american-conservative-23-march-2009/
The American Conservative, 15 December 2008
Several pieces this time despair of any prospect that traditionalist conservatism will reassert itself as a force to be reckoned with in American politics. What, then, do the writers for this traditionalist publication believe is to be done? At least two of them seem to think that the time may have come to give up on the [...]
Posted by acilius on December 17, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/12/17/the-american-conservative-15-december-2008/
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