I think one of the least appealing characteristics of white Americans is an excessive tendency to identify with authority figures. We can see this tendency among whites who lean to the political right, who are often ridiculously tenacious in their defense of police officers who shoot unarmed suspects or presidents who invade barely-armed countries. I’m […]
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Something that’s wrong with white people
Posted by acilius on January 5, 2016
https://losthunderlads.com/2016/01/05/something-thats-wrong-with-white-people/
A sensible emptiness
Ever since Alexander Cockburn died in July, Counterpunch, the newsletter he founded and co-edited, has tended to let in more and more academic leftism. Where a pungent, demotic style once prevailed, the pedantic jargon of reheated Marxism now roams wild. Despite this sad falling-off, Counterpunch still carries news and comment worth reading. I’d mention a piece […]
Posted by acilius on November 8, 2012
https://losthunderlads.com/2012/11/08/a-sensible-emptiness/
Highlights of some recent issues of The American Conservative
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a “Periodicals Note” about my favorite “Old Right” read, The American Conservative. So here are quick links to some good articles from the last four months. Richard Gamble, author of the indispensable book The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, The Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic […]
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2012
https://losthunderlads.com/2012/09/05/highlights-of-some-recent-issues-of-the-american-conservative/
Ancient Regime
Shortly before the stock markets closed yesterday afternoon, the US Supreme Court announced a ruling on the so-called “Affordable Care Act” (also known as ACA.) Health care stocks generally rose on the news of the ruling, in some cases sharply, while shares in health insurers showed a mixed reaction. Today, the trend has been slightly […]
Posted by acilius on June 29, 2012
https://losthunderlads.com/2012/06/29/ancient-regime/
The Higher Cannibalism
On 16 December 2010, Swiss Senator Dick Marty presented to the Council of Europe a report that he had been commissioned to make. Senator Marty demonstrated that the government of Kosovo, led by Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, operates a network of “clinics” in which ethnic Serbs and other political prisoners are routinely killed. Their organs […]
Posted by acilius on January 15, 2011
https://losthunderlads.com/2011/01/15/the-higher-cannibalism/
A deal with the devil
Citizens of the United States of America and other countries that have armies stationed in Afghanistan may wonder what sort of Afghans have made themselves allies of the forces operating in our names. An article by Kelly Beaucar Vlahos on antiwar.com sheds a great deal of light on this question. Vlahos quotes Patrick Cockburn’s remark that […]
Posted by acilius on April 14, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/04/14/a-deal-with-the-devil/
The Nation and the metropolis
A review of Frances Stonor Saunders’ book about Violet Gibson, the Englishwoman who shot Benito Mussolini in 1926, includes this passage: [A]ccording to the British ambassador to Italy, Mussolini was “like any other gentleman.” The King of England decorated him with the Order of the Bath, and Austen Chamberlain, the British foreign secretary (whose half brother was Neville, […]
Posted by acilius on March 21, 2010
https://losthunderlads.com/2010/03/21/the-nation-and-the-metropolis/
Panther Red 