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General Pierre-Marie Gallois, RIP

by Srdja Trifkovic

General Pierre-Marie Gallois, who died on August 23 in Paris at the age of 99, will be remembered primarily as the architect of France’s nuclear deterrence doctrine in the 1950s. He was the last in a long line of European geopolitical thinkers—from Clausewitz and Jomini to Liddell Hart and Guderian—who have combined superbly honed analytical skills with hands-on soldiering.

Srdja Trifkovic | September 2nd, 2010 | Continued

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Manufacturing Bust

by Greg Kaza

President Barack H. Obama, if current trends continue, will become the first Democrat to preside over a net national loss in domestic manufacturing jobs since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started reporting monthly employment data in 1939. Seven percent of manufacturing jobs nationwide (873,000) have disappeared since Obama took office.

Greg Kaza | September 1st, 2010 | Continued

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VI Day

by Thomas Fleming

The war’s over! We won! Hurrah for our side–whatever side that happens to be!

Thomas Fleming | August 31st, 2010 | Continued

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Can the Tea Party Deliver?

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Last Saturday, Glenn Beck packed the Mall with a crowd that could have filled Yankee Stadium to overflowing five times over. As it stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, the estimates of its size ran to half a million.

Patrick J. Buchanan | August 31st, 2010 | Continued

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The War Within the War

by William Murchison

With the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, as announced to the world by President Barack Obama, we can all sit back and smile, right? Not too big a smile, if you please. The war in nearby Afghanistan goes on, no path to victory yet discernible save the path of patience. Meanwhile the jihadists seem to be taking over Yemen and Somalia.

William Murchison | August 31st, 2010 | Continued

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The Panic of 2011

August 30th, 2010 • John Seiler • 11 comments • Related • Filed Under

If you’re old or sick and have a lot of money, I suggest taking a trip out of the country, away from your heirs, until January 1, 2011. And don’t tell them where you’re going. On that date, the death tax for rich folks goes from the current 0 percent to 55 percent. So your heirs will get less than half of what they would have if you went to the Great Walmart in the Sky a day earlier.

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The Myth of Equality

August 27th, 2010 • Patrick J. Buchanan • 33 comments • Related • Filed Under

In 21st century America, institutional racism and sexism remain great twin evils to be eradicated on our long journey to the wonderful world where, at last, all are equal.

What are we to make, then, of a profession that rewards workers with fame and fortune, yet discriminates ruthlessly against women; an institution where Hispanics and Asians, 20 percent of the U.S. population, are neither sought after nor widely seen.

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How Aussies Lost Their Pride of Erin

August 26th, 2010 • R.J. Stove • 4 comments • Related • Filed Under

“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
“To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
“The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
“That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes.
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “Silver Blaze”

Some recent Australian cultural trends—massive Islamic immigration, for instance—are so obvious that even an economist can detect them. Others occur so stealthily that they attract no attention, until you suddenly look around and think, Hey, whatever happened to such-and-such?

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The Creaturely Myth

August 25th, 2010 • James O. Tate • 25 comments • Related • Filed Under

James O. Tate reviews Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight • by Karl Rove • New York: Threshold Editions • 608 pp., $30.00

There is—there must be–all the difference in the world between an autobiography and a novel written in the first person. Are we clear? Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History, for example, has much in common with Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield or even Great Expectations, with the obvious exceptions that the “truth” seems to be fiction, and the fiction seems to be true. So then, we are not clear. And possibly an autobiography should be read as though it were fiction—at least, Karl Rove’s narrative should be read as fiction. And I recommend this approach for one particular reason: The book is much more comfortable to consume as a mythic artifact than as a discursive account of life and politics.

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Secularism and the Mosque Flap

August 24th, 2010 • William Murchison • 42 comments • Related • Filed Under

Let’s say the mosque (you know what mosque) gets built, as it certainly might, public opinion notwithstanding. What’s the next theological concession America’s Christian churches get to make in the name of brotherhood, sisterhood, pluralism, world peace and amity, the reconstruction of America’s image, etc., etc.?

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