Two Books Blast Bush and the Neocons’ Iraq and Afghan Wars
It’s hard to think of anything more disastrous that U.S. foreign policy by the current regime, Democrat and Republican.
It’s hard to think of anything more disastrous that U.S. foreign policy by the current regime, Democrat and Republican.
If we can trust a recent Rasmussen poll, nearly half the eligible voters in the United States believe the republic established by the mythical founding fathers has crumbled. Predictably, Republicans are more inclined to this gloomy opinion than Democrats, and perhaps surprisingly, women more than men.
Duane Allman, founder and leader of The Allman Brothers Band, from 1969 until his tragic death in a motorcycle crash in October 1971, called Dickey Betts the best player in the band.
Anyone who does not own a copy of the work can easily get one online from many sources including gutenberg.org. It is a short book, which can be read in the matter of a few hours. We’ll take a few weeks.
A lot of my friends, wife included, are outraged by the purge trials against Donald Trump. I certainly agree with them that the American legal system is making a flashy display of its contempt for law, confirming the global expression that the US has joined the ranks of the banana republics.
I am reviving our Book of the Month in a less pedantic and exhaustive format. We’ll put up a list of books in the probable order in which we shall take them up. I’ll post an introduction. We can have as much or little commentary as readers wish to provide, though I do ask everyone who is reading one of the books to put up a brief comment to that effect.
A few weeks ago, I posted a brief and trivial comment on pizza, which set off a longer discussion that ended up in private messaging on the question of artificial intelligence. I have edited, revised, condensed. I begin with the initial post.
It’s that time again: Election USA. As we enter the new election cycle, we can look forward to the customary effusions of democratic rhetoric. The socialists known as Democrats, while deploring the American past, will tell us, in language hallowed by the Clintons and Obamas, that we have moved beyond patriarchy, superstition, and the irrational preference for personal liberty—the prejudices of the poor savages who cling to their guns and religion.
This essay on George Garret appeared in a special volume of the Texas Review devoted to Garret.