( The same cognitive-dissonance-reducing myths and rationales of Vietnam are surfacing again in Iraq--with the same disastrous results )

Okay, for some strange reason I started thinking about George Fitzhugh and Louis Hartz and related matters, which led me somehow to some cat named John Patrick Diggins. I started reading Diggins, who is so obsessed with Locke that his writing triggered a memory about the Larouchian historians who vigorously deny any connection between Locke and the ( Read more... )