It welcomed the tests of time/
Like an eternal friend,/
Our country is blessed,/
Our country is such!
#Americanism
For the Fourth: Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball, Booze, and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism)
Posted in Anismism, Music, Neo-Imperialism, Old Gone Over, Political Philosophy, Sports, US History, War, 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
“no uplifting realist”
Leon Wieseltier, in “Obama Was Wrong[:] The Era of Humanitarian Intervention Is Not Over”: Barack Obama believed that he could preside over the end of humanitarian intervention, which he called simply war. He was momentously wrong… History, whose course he…
Posted in Neo-Imperialism, notes, Political Philosophy, War Tagged with: Americanism, realism, Wieseltier
McCarthy’s unusually actually reasonably conservative conservative foreign policy
Posted in International Relations, Neo-Imperialism, notes, Twitterei Tagged with: Americanism, Conservatism, Hegel, Isolationism, Liberalism, Neo-Conservatism, neo-imperialism, realism, Schmitt, Strauss, Twitter
On Perceiving the People and the Army as One Hand in America, Too
Why do people, according to this survey, separate so neatly that which the view of the system we’re commonly taught says is incorrect? Why do Americans ascribe such confidence to pigs & soldiers while withholding confidence from who tells pigs…
Posted in notes, Philosophy, Politics Tagged with: Americanism, anarchism, de Tocqueville, Democracy, democratism, liberal democracy
Economic and Special Warfare Are Also the Health of the State
The Roosevelt-Marshall welfare-warfare state and the global regime it fought and worked into existence remain intact but under pressure. They still depend on an ability to project beyond themselves, both economically as well as militarily, and both morally as well as practically.
Posted in Featured, Neo-Imperialism, Political Philosophy, Politics, War Tagged with: Americanism, Cold War, Communism, Crimea Crisis, crypto-fascism, European Union, Fascism, Germany, libertarianism, neoliberalism, Russia, Special Warfare, USSR, World War II
An American Conservative Declinism
[View the story “An American Conservative Declinism” on Storify] (Text version follows)
Posted in Neo-Imperialism, notes, Politics Tagged with: Americanism, Conservatism, Crimea Crisis, Liberal Internationalism
Notes on A Living Originalism
The purpose of this unusually long post is to review and expand upon a discussion under a set of posts by Tim Kowal and Burt Likko, who are practicing attorneys with interest in Constitutional Law, on doctrines of Constitutional interpretation. The perhaps still distant objective is a framework for a “synthetic originalism” or “vital originalism” or “living originalism,” or a Unified Theory or at least Adequate Description of American Constitutionalism…
Posted in Featured, Legal Philosophy, Political Philosophy, The Exception, US History Tagged with: Americanism, Constitutionalism, Living Constitution, Living Originalism, Originalism, Paul W Kahn, Popular Sovereignty
Re: Modern American True Civic Religion vs. Pre-Modern Cultish Religion in North Carolina
The would-be North Carolina establishers of a modified pre-modern Christian cult cannot rise without the True Civic Religion of American Constitutionalism under Holy Democratic Popular Sovereignty falling that same little bit. But the True Civic Religion is powerful and pervasive. It would have a very long way to still to fall, even if the reactionary cult happens to seize control of a city council somewhere for long enough to have a few somewhat sectarian prayers said before sessions, or to put the emblems of the cult on the same level as a team mascot.
Posted in Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Politics, Religion Tagged with: Americanism, Anismism, Constitution, religion
