It is always annoying to have to admit one has been wrong.  But I was among those who a year ago or so was going along with those who argue...

In previous posts, I discussed the Senate confirmation hearings plagiarism by Keisha Russell of a Washington Post column by Marc Thiessen a...

The grinning mug on the right of the YouTube Fox News screen above is Allen C. Guelzo, a historian of the Civil War and biographer of Abraha...

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. -- Voltaire Keisha Russell is a propagandist for the "...

 An unfortunate reason the current war in Ukraine might go on longer than it should (with the should here being that it should never have ha...

I reread the first 50-pages of One-Dimensional Man and the 9-page introduction with Rosenberg's critique of Mills, Packard, Riesman, Sp...

In 1959, Harold Rosenberg wrote the essay "The Orgamerican Phantasy," published in The Tradition of the New . Rosenberg's essa...

 The stock of Thomas Robert Malthus rises and falls with the real price of food. He was not the inventor of his theory of population, a poin...

 "Rhetoric" in quotes because it may not be just that.  I have not been posting much, partly because had a wedding for daughter, S...

Georg Simmel called it "a faint sense of tension and vague longing" connected with the modern preponderance of means over ends. Wh...

In his farewell lecture at Brandeis University, "Obsolescence of Socialism," Herbert Marcuse quoted a passage from the Grundrisse ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered a spike in oil and gas prices worldwide.  A natural response is for countries with untapped re...

 At New Year's I disagreed with forecasts made by David Ignatius that Putin would fully invade Ukraine and that the JCPOA nuclear deal w...

In Selling Mrs. Consumer, Christine Frederick shilled for progressive obsolescence, which had been advocated the previous year in an article...

Lewis Corey was a pseudonym for Louis Fraina, one of the founders of the U.S. Communist Party. In a letter to Marcuse dated August 16, 1960,...