Dafydd’s Pontifications
After a hiatus of approximately 237 years, I have put a post up at Patterico’s Pontifications, where I got my start blogging back when the rocks were still cooling. You can read it here.
I’m too pressed for time to tell you what it’s all about. Suffice to say that it relates to racism, [...]
Obama the Nixonian?
That’s the theme of Peter Beinart’s latest essay in Time:
The best precedent for all this is what Nixon did in the late Vietnam years. For roughly two decades, the U.S. had been trying to contain “communism” — another ominous, elastic noun that encompassed a multitude of movements and regimes. But Vietnam proved that this was [...]
Darkness at High Noon: the UnAmericanism of an American Icon
A comment to the previous blogpost, That Big Ol’ NEA Scandal… Just Déjà Vu-Du, has taken issue with my characterization of the seminal film High Noon as a deeply unAmerican, even anti-American movie that slanders the American character… at a time when the only form of unAmericanism that was acceptable to the intelligensia in the [...]
A Van Jones Postscript
The defining accomplishment of Van Jones’s life was his founding of the Ella Baker Freedom Center. While the controversy over his appointment was going on I meant to look into who she was, but didn’t get it done. Ron Radosh, an expert on the hard left of which he was once a member, [...]
Fac me cocleario vomere!
The Yale motto is Lux et Veritas. In view of the decision of Yale University Press to remove the Muhammad cartoons from Brandeis University Professor Jytte Klausen’s forthcoming book on the cartoon controversy, Mark Steyn thinks Timiditas et Deditio would be more like it.
Among those taking note are Roger Kimball and Allahpundit. [...]
