Bookworm on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-war
I mentioned the famous Walt Kelly phrase (”we have met the enemy and it is us”) the other day in connection with a post I did about Sweden’s national suicide pact. My point then was that, if a culture is determined to self-destruct, that suicidal urge becomes the most powerful weapon possible in its enemies [...]
Bookworm on Jun 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Education, Free speech
I just attended the end of year program at my children’s elementary school. I won’t run on here about how adorable my children were or how charming the other children ewre (accept that as given). Instead, I want to focus on the show’s content, which I found both fascinating and depressing.
A little background [...]
Bookworm on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-war, Britain, England, Europe
I am a huge Georgette Heyer fan. I consider her one of the most amusing, sophisticated novel writers ever, and think it’s a shame that she got labeled as a pure romance writer, a genre that puts her in the “I browse that section wearing sunglasses and a scarf” category of books at any [...]
Bookworm on Feb 27 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama
Spengler, writing at Asia Times Online, has one of the more fascinating attacks I’ve seen on Barack Obama, and one that exposes some Obama history about which I was blissfully unaware. I knew that Michelle Obama, in her role as candidate’s wife, has forced herself to speak positively about America, to the point [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Communism, Israel
In an earlier post, I asked how America in the 60s managed to swing over to and completely accept its enemy’s way of defining the situation. That is, the logical American point of view should have been that we were defeating Communism, which is an evil scourge that was trying to take over the [...]
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