even though by rights it ought to--

And not just because it proves him wrong about all that Death of Western Culture nonsense and makes pointless his Where Have All The Classics Gone shtik.

I just don't think that lots of fans arguing about a movie treatment of a famous comic book artist's treatment of Herodotus count any more than Frank Miller' ( Read more... )

January, 2005

The Center for Ethical Leadership at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (no, that's not the funny part) at the University of Texas in Austin had for featured speakers at a shindig this year, among others, Bob Woodward and Victor Davis Hanson.

apparently you can max out the character limit in LJ. Who knew?

tomscud has done some must-read deconstruction on Robert Kaplan (and I have to admit that not only did I never read Balkan Ghosts because it was just too daunting to read a six-pound doorstop about a centuries-long lose/lose situation, call it moral cowardice or sloth or diagnose it as ( Read more... )

Sorry for the egregious profanity ( Read more... )

This is an oldy-but-goodie I'd forgotten about, until doing the digging for the last article. This was a popular book by a bestselling military author, published in 1911, three years before Sarejevo and the events of The Guns of August took place, and yes, he wasn't an official part of the government any more than Rich Lowry or Michael Ledeen are ( Read more... )