By • May 20,2008

Bitter-Enders

This paragraph in Richard Cohen’s column today on why Hillary hasn’t dropped out puzzled me a little bit: In the end, no one begrudges a bitter-ender. Robert E. Lee is...

By • May 20,2008

Buy The Book

Philip Rieff is the greatest social thinker you’ve never heard of. The second volume of his posthumous and mindbending three-volume opus, Sacred Order/Social Order, has hit shelves (there is a...

By • May 20,2008

The Case for Empire, Redux

In the early days of The Weekly Standard online, Jonathan V. Last wrote a very controversial piece entitled The Case for Empire. In it, he argued that viewers were cheering...

By • May 20,2008

Japanese Cinema

James picks his favorite (and least favorite) Japanese film over at The American Scene. I think his choice of Battle Royale is a great one, though you can’t go wrong...

By • May 19,2008

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Bad Night

Ross writes: there are times when quietism is the better part of valor, and times when revolutions are necessary things. And given my own declinist instincts, I can easily imagine...