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April 13, 2006
TAKING THE IRAN THREAT WITH THE SERIOUSNESS AND RESOLVE THAT IT REQUIRES...
...is the task that Mark Steyn addresses in this important contribution about to be published in the City Journal. He spoke of similar matters on our program last Tuesday night.
Posted by Ext720 at 09:15 PM | Comments (0)
MORE SERIOUS THINKING ABOUT A NUCLEARIZING IRAN...
...comes from Mark Helprin in today's Washington Post who, like Steyn, is willing to forego the platitides and consider the difficult things that must be done.
Posted by Ext720 at 09:15 PM | Comments (0)
MEANWHILE, WHAT'S HAPPENING IN DAMASCUS?
Apparently the eminent opthalmologist, Bashar al-Assad, is holding on to power as the "democratic" opposition (if there ever was one) has pooped out. Omaya Abdel-Latiff of Al Ahram of Cairo fills out the scorecard for you.
Posted by Ext720 at 09:13 PM | Comments (0)
CALL AN ILLEGAL ALIEN...
...an illegal alien. And call the person who protests a concerned citized rather than a "racist." Getting the vocabularly straight, says Victor Davis Hanson, will do wonders in advancing us toward some sort of honest and effective solution to the invasion--or isn't that the right word?
Posted by Ext720 at 09:12 PM | Comments (0)
A BLOGGER LOSES THE FAITH...
...just as he gets ready to take a newspaper job. So what does it all prove? Probably that the bloom is coming off the rose. But Matt Welch's disillusion, as published in Reason magazine, won't stop the exponential proliferation of the web logs of the western and, increasingly, eastern world.
Posted by Ext720 at 09:10 PM | Comments (0)
A NEW PROFESSORSHIP IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION...
...doesn't bother the Harvard faculty much so long as they keep it in the Divinity School. What bothers them more are new presidents who presume to speak truth to faculty power. But that story--more than this one from Harvard--is now finished and it may be presumed that the next president, when they appoint one, will be more docile, perhaps as much so as one might expect from the eventual occupant of the science and religion chair.
Posted by Ext720 at 09:08 PM | Comments (0)
WHEN MARXISM GAVE UP ON ECONOMICS...
...it shifted to "cultural revolution" of the sort prefigured by the so-called "Frankfurt School" and d the whole anti-traditional mess was exported back to Europe where it has taken root more firmly than it could have in the U.S. This interesting tracking of recent history is developed in a new book reviewed here in the Brussels Journal.
Posted by Ext720 at 09:07 PM | Comments (0)
A NOVELIST WE HAVE NO INTEREST IN READING...
...is breathlessly profiled in an article almost as disordered as the man in presumes to describe. Is this article from the Moscow Times indiciative of the state of contemporary Russian writing. Or is someone (either the profiler or the profilee) putting us on?
Posted by Ext720 at 09:06 PM | Comments (0)
WE DON'T BUY IT!
This critique, from Slate, of the book review critic for the New York Times holds her to standards that the critic of the critic thinks to be of paramount importance; but we think that evaluating a book as worthy or not IS the basic task that a useful and focused critic must perform if she does, as well, adduce convincing and interesting reasons for her judgment. And Kakutani does--more than just about any other regular opiniuonist writing for the Times!
Posted by Ext720 at 09:05 PM | Comments (0)
ELEGANT JAZZ...
...ranging from Scott Joplin to lots of Duke Ellington (do by all means thake the A-Train) to a full performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. All are available on this site and a fine explanatory text, as well.
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