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My brother sent me this article in Die Welt. It’s quite good for European commentary on the U.S., as it actually seems to take care to look at the country as it is. It’s got a handful of mistakes in it (Mormons love to dance! Washington is federalizing more of American life. Etc.), but much […]
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It’s almost Halloween, and it would be a terrible disservice if the Ricochetoisie didn’t know about the terrific new Black Lizard Big Book of Ghost Stories (Amazon). Edited by the great, great Otto Penzler, it’s — as the title promises — a giant 800+-page doorstop of a book packed with ghost stories old and new. Likely […]
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Stepping away from the horse race, here’s a question. Romney & Ryan are the candidates of most of the Ricochettsia—say they win, what do y’all want them to do? Stipulate they have a reasonably cooperative Congress, and take for granted the desiderata they’ve already expressed—repeal of ObamaCare in some fashion, some large fiscal reform, etc.What, […]
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For a change of pace in your home for Center-Right Conversation, here are some mystery books I’ve gone through at bedtime of late which I can recommend to those so inclined. I must first mention A Falling Knife by our own “Judith Deborah” Levy. It’s an exceptionally well-written tale rooted in buried human tragedy but […]
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Professor Rahe to the white courtesy phone. RFK and what appear to be Catholic seminarians, in Ohio (campaigning for Frazier Reams Jr.’s ultimately failed bid for governorship), 1966. By Bill Eppridge for Life. Preview Open
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Sang Mary Lou Lord. However, she did not say what to do in the case that the lights have gone green. So I don’t know what exactly do to, but I can report one of our Ricocheteers-in-Chief has done got green lit. Preview Open
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(Figured I’d keep up Peter’s “Hollow Men” motif.) I used to be a nobody in the defense and aerospace world, and I’ve seen this movie before. George Bush the Elder declared a peace dividend and took a big whack at the Reagan Cold War military (by as much as half by some measures). Bill Clinton, […]
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Hope 2012 is great. As for me, even if it’s the Mayan apocalypse, it’s a step up from 2011. Utzul Mank’inal! Preview Open
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I never met Steve Jobs. I probably was in the same time zone as the man no more than four or five times in my middle-aged life, but his passing is one of those times when the death of a stranger hits one rather hard. The last artist whose death affected me as viscerally was […]
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So, what might the North Koreans be doing in Ankara? Please recall Claire’s earlier observations that given the predictable collapse of the AKP’s “Zero Problems with Neighbors” foreign-policy when unrest in Syria threatened Turkish sovereignty, the Iranians they’d courted so assiduously showed them how much their friendship was worth in Tehran, and the Russians (their […]
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With apologies to Herman Wouk for lifting the title. When asked to submit my memories of ten years ago, I thought about it and concluded I had little to add. I saw it on TV, like most people, I was horrified, enraged, terrified, and heartbroken, like most people. What surprised me, ten years later, is […]
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Just saw this kicking around the Badger State, Prof. Rahe, and thought you’d be pleased. U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan keeps saying “no.” Preview Open
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So, my iPad has just received Mark Steyn’s After America, and I read with interest Dave Carter’s “Where’s Our Ark?” yesterday. My question is much like Dave’s with a practical spin. As one of nature’s pessimists, I am a sucker for a good doom-and-gloom apocalypse, though as a historian, I have to note that real […]
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Before 9/11, flying wasn’t great, with the airlines’ drift towards being flying bus lines, but it was awfully convenient. Now, it’s not, not just because of the TSA follies. Courtesy of Small Dead Animals, I read this Globe & Mail column stating that 1,000 miles is about the author‘s minimum distance beyond which flying becomes more attractive […]
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Ok, by request, historical mysteries. Huge category, definitional problems aplenty, but like Justice Stewart, you probably know it when you see it. Have at it. Preview Open
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Returning to the discussion-cum-parlor game we started yesterday, I’ll toss out a couple questions on American mystery fiction, throw out a couple starting points, and see where it goes. Again, these are all written in ‘present company excepted’ terms. Feel free to talk about the locals if you like, though. Preview Open
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In this article on bestsellers (worth your time on its own merits), Michael Dirda calls the late, lamented Donald Westlake “the finest all-around American crime writer of the past forty years.” This assertion struck me as a completely defensible and meritorious proposition (indeed, I have argued it myself on occasion) but certainly not outside the realm of […]
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From the NYT account of its unveiling: In front of the hot dog stand Jeff Whitaker, 40, a computer programmer from Atlanta, was a bit more ambivalent. “He was one of America’s better Presidents,” he mused, before adding that he would also like to see a statue in London to Jimmy Carter, a native Georgian […]
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And, what the heck, here are some more Schoolhouse Rock songs about the War of Independence, for all your Gen X nostalgia needs. First, for Claire, who’s busy indicting King George on Twitter: Preview Open
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May I suggest three things for which to spare a moment’s thought as we celebrate? First, the breathtaking contingency of the American republic, which emerged from such an overwhelmingly unlikely combination of brilliant (and not-so brilliant) men, the historical moment of English liberal philosophy, close shaves, near-disasters, and many more unlikely factors that some of […]
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