It welcomed the tests of time/
Like an eternal friend,/
Our country is blessed,/
Our country is such!
Future History
Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism)
Posted in Featured, Future History, Sports, US History, Yoga Tagged with: America, American Idea, Americanism, Anti-Federalism, baseball, Borat, Constitution, Democratic Republican, Federalism, Francis Scott Key, Francis Scott Smith Miller, Gordon Wood, Ideal Americanism, Jefferson, Kazakhstan, Madison, Metonymy, National Anthem, Nationalism, Pennsylvania, Scott Smith Miller, Star-Spangled Banner, War of 1812, Whiskey Rebellion, Woodrow Wilson, Yoga
Toward a Society of the Anti-Spectacle
Jonathan Bernstein asked for suggestions on 9/11 Reading/Viewing/Listening. I suggested: Gillespie THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF MODERNITY Wright THE EVOLUTION OF GOD Lilla THE STILLBORN GOD Ansary DESTINY DISRUPTED (A History of the World through Islamic Eyes) Van Creveld THE TRANSFORMATION…
No exceptionalism to the rule…
Even when confronting striking evidence that something is wrong and that no one has an implementable solution, even when imagining that at least they have stepped outside of political-philosophical gridlock, American pundits, politicians, and popular historians write with unquestioning optimism…
Posted in Future History, History, US History Tagged with: 2010 Elections, 2012 Elections, American Exceptionalism, gridlock, Walter Russell Mead
Totally greatest country like ever
Mike suggests he believes that the United States is not the greatest country in the history of the world; I disagree, for manifold reasons I will detail if anyone cares. But I think he is right to argue that telling…
Shouting FIRE in a crowded world
“Developing World Catches a Fresh IT Wave” looks like the title for some completely disposable fluff piece, possibly in a trade publication or even an investment brochure, featuring interviews with a Sri Lankan computer geek and an Indonesian businesswoman addicted…
…and take all our separate planets with us
If you’re going to declare someone else to be insane, your diagnosis will be easier to credit if it’s not couched in absurdities. Here’s the conclusion of Gabriel Schoenfeld’s post today at The Weekly Standard blog: The outpouring of condemnation from…
Posted in Future History, International Relations, Politics, War Tagged with: Gabriel Schoenfeld, Israel, Munich, War
Tales from the Geopolitical Crypt: Seven Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich
Seven Deadly Scenarios can be read and enjoyed almost as a collection of near future science fiction stories, though unlike sci-fi writers, who typically unveil the imagined course of future events elliptically, piece by piece, thus to keep the reader…