Russell has a nice post tying together some of the recent threads about “dissident conservatives” and “red tories.” Meanwhile, John Milbank expands a bit on his views in this interview. Pertinent passage:
To my mind then, modernity is liberalism, liberalism is capitalism (‘political economy’) and capitalism is atheism and nihilism. Not to see this (or rather [...]
Archive for June 7th, 2008
More Red Toryism, plus “atheism is bourgeois oppression”
Posted in Conservatism, Politics, Theology & Faith on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Why it matters
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I can imagine some Obama supporters saying, in response to this post, that Obama doesn’t really believe those things; he’s just saying what he needs to say to get elected. And that as president he would certainly never go to war with Iran to prevent it from getting nukes.
First, we (or at least I) have [...]
A yankee’s lament
Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am so not cut out for these DC summers. It’s supposed to be 99 today. In frickin’ June. Seriously.
What part of “last resort” isn’t clear?
Posted in Libertarianism, Politics, War & Peace on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a sad state of affairs when someone needs to make the case that war should be a last resort, but Doug Bandow does a good job this thankless task.
Also, via Dan McCarthy, I see that Bandow has signed on as Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr’s foreign policy advisor, which is surely a point in [...]
Unintended consequences
Posted in Politics, War & Peace on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Rieff is a repentant liberal interventionist whose book At the Point of a Gun traces his disillusionment from the days when he was an advocate of Western intervention in Bosnia.
Here he asks whether calls for intervention in various trouble spots hasn’t become a form of cheap moral posing since those who advocate intervention [...]
