Myths exposed. A long but interesting history.
Category Archives: History
Revisionism
After years of embracing it, the Left is now trying to separate itself from “woke,” now that normal people are recognizing its toxicity.
They always have to relabel when their terrible ideas catch up with them, just as they stole the word “liberal.”
[Update a few minutes later]
Quit pretending you don’t know what “woke” means.
The Byzantines
Are we them?
The parallels are disturbing.
How We Forgot Pol Pot
Revisiting the killing fields.
If Marxism means enforced equality, its ultimate endpoint is this. Individuals cannot be ‘allowed’ as they might be ‘different’, they might laugh or be happy, unlike others. Beauty – physical, artistic, sexual, spiritual, intellectual – must likewise be ruthlessly extinguished, because it too prevents a Marxist Utopia. Beauty is unfair. It must be eliminated.
Does this matter? Yes, because we live in a time when kids think Marxism is cool again. When self-confessed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn is seen as an amusing old uncle.
In the early 80s, I worked with a man from Cambodia at Rockwell who had managed to escape, just a few years earlier. He was a good guy, smart engineer, but understandably didn’t want to talk about that.
Who Is Running America?
People who weren’t elected.
The Department Of Homeland Insecurity
It’s two decades old, and it’s past time to abolish it.
I thought it was a terrible idea at the time.
Of Cabbages And Kings
Thoughts on the January 6th injustice, from Jeff Goldstein.
Why The Ukrainians Will Never Surrender
They know what will happen to them if they do.
An Open Letter From Naomi Wolf
“Dear conservatives, I am sorry.”
American Fascism
It’s a variant, of course, of general American Marxism.