The Invisible Counterpoint

Death of the Liberal Class , Chris Hedges (2010) Reviewed by Patrick McEvoy-Halston - - - - - Saving Liberals from Chris Hedges Chris Hedges, in Death of the Liberal Class , ostensibly isn’t wishing the liberal class to die – he’s simply demarcating it as deceased, or so he argues – but he certainly doesn’t have much good to say about it either, and as a DeMausian psychohistorian, I’m probably normally not much in mind to defend it myself.   He describes it, the liberal class – a composite of left-leaning artists, journalists, and academics:   lefty intellectuals – as if it entrance to it now requires abdicating anything that meaningfully defined liberals as liberal in the first place.   You have to agree to no longer serve, to betray , the people, their best interests, and effectively end up sycophants to the mandarin corporate ruling class.   And to see my sort of psychohistory at all accepted within academia right now, I would likely have to see it...

Wanting War, Jeffrey Record  Reviewed by Patrick McEvoy-Halston - - - - - Jeffrey Record, in “Wanting War,” would have you know that the Iraq war was/is a war of hubris, that Iraq presented no pressing threat but an enticing prize, neo-cons and George W. Bush made use of a nation’s powerful need to simply trust to empower their intent to go after.  I’m sure you’ve heard this one before, and possibly long, long ago accepted it in full, thinking what we most needed to know about the war has been repeatedly revealed; and perhaps for this reason, principally, we should go into why Record’s account does us all little good. BUSH’S LURCH Record wants to leave no doubt that Bush’s decision to go to war with Iraq after 9/11 had nothing to do with the new realities of the world revealed by the attack, and as such, left us all of course in a much worse fix (with such like Iran’s influence on Iraq now even being greater).  Afghanistan was the more likely suspect, ...