The current issues of The American Conservative and Chronicles appeared in our mailbox yesterday; here are my notes on them. J. David Hoeveler, who in 1977 published the indispensable book The New Humanism: A Critique of Modern America, 1900-1940, contributes to this issue of The American Conservative an article about one of the main subjects [...]
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The Old Right in the New Year
Posted by acilius on January 5, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/01/05/the-old-right-in-the-new-year/
Seceding from the Nation
Eric Foner is a major historian of the mid-19th century USA and a regular contributor to The Nation magazine. In a recent issue, he reviewed two books about politics in the South during and after the Civil War, Stephanie McCurry’s Confederate Reckoning and Victoria Bynum’s The Long Shadow of the Civil War. This paragraph of Foner’s got me [...]
Posted by acilius on July 30, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/07/30/seceding-from-the-nation/
The Nation, lately
Here are the first two paragraphs of Stuart Klawans’ review of Richard Linklater’s docudrama, Me and Orson Welles: The story of an omelet told from an eggshell’s point of view, Me and Orson Welles relates the events of one week in November 1937, when a fictional high school student named Richard happens upon some actors [...]
Posted by acilius on December 12, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/12/12/the-nation-lately/
Should the USA adopt a value-added tax?
Most countries in the world collect a border-adjusted value added tax; the USA does not. In this document, posted on his blog, former US Senator Ernest F Hollings succinctly points out a problem this creates for American manufacturers: Our tax laws force off-shoring. You can manufacture a computer in Chicago, which requires an average corporate income tax of [...]
Posted by acilius on December 12, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/12/12/should-the-usa-adopt-a-value-added-tax/
The American Conservative, November 2009
In this issue, former FBI employee Sibel Edmonds names some prominent US officials whom she believes to have accepted bribes from foreign governments. Eve Tushnet visits a Washington, DC locale known to the federal government as Meridian Hill Park, though she has “only seen its maiden name in two places: District government plaques and local girl Florence [...]
Posted by acilius on September 24, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/09/24/the-american-conservative-november-2009/
The Nation, 3 August 2009
Jonathan Schell’s remembrance of former Defense Secretary Robert Strange McNamara begins with the story of Schell’s meeting with McNamara in 1967, at which he, then a young reporter for The New Yorker, briefed the secretary on what he had seen American forces doing in Vietnam. Schell would not hear from McNamara after that meeting, but declassified [...]
Posted by acilius on July 16, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/07/16/the-nation-3-august-2009/
Wounded Knee, nanotech, Serbian broadcasting, and the car industry
Go away for a month, and things pile up. Time to get back at it. Here are “Periodicals Notes” on three recent issues of Counterpunch. 16-30 April: Tiphaine Dickson reports on the case of Dragoljub Milanovic, the only person ever to have been tried and punished for NATO’s 23 April 1999 bombing of Radio Television [...]
Posted by acilius on June 11, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/06/11/wounded-knee-nanotech-serbian-broadcasting-and-the-car-industry/
More on the Destruction of ViewMaster
In November, I posted here news that had come to me in a mass email from Las Vegas’ 3Dstereo Store, a report that Mattel would no longer produce ViewMaster reels that might appeal to adults. Today, another mass mailing from the same source brings more bad news: Since the the end of last year, the news from [...]
Posted by acilius on March 26, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/26/more-on-the-destruction-of-viewmaster/
Counterpunch, 16-31 January 2009
From Paul Craig Roberts, part two of a three-part survey of economics. In Part One, published issue-before-last, Roberts had defended supply-side economics as the insight that reducing marginal tax rates increases the amount of goods available in the economy at every price range. In this original sense, Roberts asserted, supply-side had “nothing to do with trickle-down economics [...]
Posted by acilius on February 15, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/02/15/counterpunch-16-31-january-2009/
Sad news for ViewMaster fans
(image) News in the latest email from Las Vegas’ 3D Stereo Store: View-Master Closing: On a sad note, Mattel/Fisher-Price has announced the permanent closing of the Custom/Commercial/Scenic View-Master division of View-Master. Scenic reels and the Classic Model L will cease to exist. All of the special special 3 Reel sets such as Old TIme Cars, and [...]
Posted by acilius on November 25, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/11/25/sad-news-for-viewmaster-fans/
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