Everybody should read The Communist Manifesto, and read it more than once.  Short, fast-moving and written to be understood by a wide audience, it’s a gripping read, a huge intellectual accomplishment, and a way of thinking about the world that has shaped almost everything that came after it.  It was once said that the second [...]

Antisemitism is never a great subject to discuss, but there are two good reasons for posting on it today.  One is that the entire internet has been aflame with the feud between Andrew Sullivan and his longtime mentor Leon Wieseltier, and the question of whether Sullivan is an antisemite has gotten half the country’s bloggers [...]

Once again, there’s been an overwhelming deluge of responses to one of my posts on climate change.  I apologize if we weren’t able to review and post all the comments as quickly as I would have liked.  I was away from the GHQ yesterday giving some talks up at West Point yesterday.  This is one [...]

Two things have me thinking about morality and historians this week.  First, I’ve been re-reading Livy’s Early History of Rome to prepare for this Monday’s class in Grand Strategy.  Second, Howard Zinn (author of A People’s History of the United States) died this week.  Livy and Zinn were both wildly popular historians, both wrote about [...]