Profile in Cowardice

| January 28, 2005

Perhaps it’s been difficult for Senator Ted Kennedy, living all these years in the shadows of his late brothers. Said the Senator: We have reached the point that a prolonged American military presence in Iraq is no longer productive for either Iraq or the United States. The US military presence has become part of the […]

Deconstructing Tolkien for Fun and Profit

| January 7, 2005

Once in a while, you stumble across a previously unseen gem. Howard Zinn’s and Noam Chomsky’s post-modernism takes one on the chin, in a long but thoroughly enjoyable parody from 2003, “The Real Atrocity in Tolkien’s Middle Earth.” Zinn: Here, very significantly, we have the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm. You will notice that what is destroyed […]