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Greek Diary III

by Thomas Fleming

We had a big but quite mediocre lunch near the Agora, at Attalos, and by the time we got to the entrance, we found out they had changed the schedule for visiting the Agora. Returning the next day, we took our time getting lost on the site, which is impossible not to do, even with the straightforward guidebook put out by the American School.

Thomas Fleming | February 8th, 2010 | Continued

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I Love What You Do For Me, Toyota!

by Tom Piatak

It’s always nice to have one’s beliefs confirmed. I was traveling this week, and wasn’t able to follow current events closely, but as the bad news around Toyota continued to mount, I figured that someone at NRO would be flacking for the Japanese and suggesting that it was all part of a government plot to help GM.

Tom Piatak | February 5th, 2010 | Continued

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Will Obama Play the War Card?

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play.

Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear program and impose the “crippling” sanctions he promised in 2008, America would be on an escalator to confrontation that could lead straight to war.

Patrick J. Buchanan | February 4th, 2010 | Continued

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Greek Diary II

by Thomas Fleming

The Plaka was once the heart of modern Athens, first Ottoman Athens and then the Athens built largely by German kings and queens and their philhellenic architects. It was ruined by the work of brilliant American archaeologists who tore out the heart of the neighborhood in digging up the ancient agora and by corrupt politicians who encouraged the displacement of the residents by as cynical a set of junk merchants as has ever afflicted a tourist shrine. It is almost as bad as the streets around the Vatican.

Thomas Fleming | February 2nd, 2010 | Continued

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Government Itself Needs an Education

by William Murchison

Anyone who sees health policy as a trackless jungle for policymakers should take a gander at education policy as mediated by the federal government.

William Murchison | February 2nd, 2010 | Continued

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Bring Our Marines Home

February 2nd, 2010 • Patrick J. Buchanan • 39 comments • Related • Filed Under

A month after Germany surrendered in May 1945, America’s eyes turned to the Far East, where the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war was joined on the island of Okinawa.

Twelve thousand U.S. soldiers and Marines would die—twice as many dead in 82 days of fighting as have died in all the years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Within weeks of the battle’s end came Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three weeks later, Gen. MacArthur took the Japanese surrender on the battleship Missouri.

That was 65 years ago, as far away in time from today as the Marines’ arrival at Da Nang was from Teddy Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill.

Yet the Marines are still on Okinawa.

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Greek Diary I

January 31st, 2010 • Thomas Fleming • 12 comments • Related • Filed Under

Greece is an ancient land but a young country, younger even than the United States, whose citizens have grown old, generation after generation, bragging about the youthfulness of their democracy.   Here in Greece, as Toynbee pointed out in one of his last books, the multiple burdens of the past weigh down on every generation.  Archaic and classical Greeks were as haunted by Homer’s Mycenaean warriors as later Greeks were haunted by Euripides and Plato, and Greeks, under Ottoman oppression or  the usually less severe Venetian rule, were obsessed with the glories of Constantinople, an obsession that gave birth to the “Great Idea” that emboldened Greece to attempt to take back Ionia.  Uneducated Greeks—and their educational system is in a race to the American bottom with other EU state systems—still have some intuition that once upon a time there were great men like Miltiades, the victor at Marathon, or Constantine Dragases, the last East-Roman emperor, who is commemorated in a  statue in front of the garish new cathedral in Athens.

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Crisis of the Government Party

January 29th, 2010 • Patrick J. Buchanan • 36 comments • Related • Filed Under

President Obama is in a dilemma from which there appears to be no easy or early escape.

Democrats are the Party of Government. They feed it, and it feeds them. The larger government grows, the more agencies that are created, the more bureaucrats who are hired, the more people who become beneficiaries, the more deeply entrenched in power the Party of Government becomes.

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State of the Union

January 29th, 2010 • Alexander Cockburn • 17 comments • Related • Filed Under

You can see how seriously Obama is taking the hot populist temper of the American people and their eagerness to strangle every banker with the entrails of every insurance executive. In an altogether welcome departure from past presidential form in State of the Union addresses at least since 1973 (the first time I listened to one), he shoved the rest of the world into less than five minutes near the end of an oration that lasted well over an hour, giving over at least 90 percent of his time to various pledges for economic cleanup on the domestic front.

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In Praise of Euphemism

January 28th, 2010 • William Murchison • 4 comments • Related • Filed Under

I got into it recently—in cordial fashion—with the editors of an editorial page for which I used to labor. One of their columnists had used a word . . . well, let’s say we wouldn’t have printed it in Ye Olden Tyme. The editors took exception to the exception I took to the word’s appearance on their page. I riposted: whatever happened to euphemism?

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