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The homogeneity of Leftist thinking at American institutions and its effect on poverty at the ground level

on Apr 07 2013 | Filed under: African-Americans, Anti-Americanism, Education, Leftist morality, Race

Tweet I’ve written before about one of my favorite writers, Paul Fussell.  He wrote a wonderful essay entitled Thank God for the Atom Bomb, about the righteousness of dropping the atom bomb.  He was in the Army when Truman dropped the bomb, so Fussell wholeheartedly approved — and had the data to back up his [...]

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Let’s talk of pleasant(ish) things

on Nov 06 2012 | Filed under: Books

Tweet I discovered that I was too nervous about the election even to read my usual round of blogs this morning.  After I saw a post about shenanigans in Pennsylvania, my stomach did a little slip-sloppy thing, and I closed all the political blog tabs I had open.  Until I get my equilibrium back, I [...]

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Yes, it was reasonable to drop the atomic bomb

on Aug 05 2012 | Filed under: Japan, World War II

Tweet Almost since Truman drooped the bomb, historians have been claiming that he did so, not to end World War II but, instead, to fire the opening salvo in the Cold War. In other words, the post war academics claimed that Truman sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives just to prove a point to [...]

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Paul Fussell, RIP

on May 23 2012 | Filed under: Books, Japan, World War II

Tweet One of the best history books ever written, bar none, is Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory, a book that elegantly and seamlessly manages to be a comprehensive overview of WWI from the English point of view and of British literature during WWI.  My copy of the book, which I got during [...]

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Our very literate military

on Jan 11 2012 | Filed under: Military

Tweet One of my favorite books ever is Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory. (Just as a “by the way,” another wonderful Fussell book is Thank God for the Atom Bomb.)  In The Great War and Modern Memory, Fussell examines how the literary British upper-class men who participated in the British war wrote [...]

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