The Problem With The Deomcrats

Martin Peretz of The New Republic has written a wonderful thought piece that should be read in its entirety dealing with the intellectual disarray of the modern liberal meme (damn you Richard Dawkins---I swore I'd never use your stupid word). Money quote:

This leaves us with the issue of U.S. power, the other leftover from the '60s. It is true: American liberals no longer believe in the axiomatic virtue of revolutions and revolutionaries. But let's face it: It's hard to get a candid conversation going about Cuba with one. The heavily documented evidence of Fidel Castro's tyranny notwithstanding, he still has a vestigial cachet among us. After all, he has survived Uncle Sam's hostility for more than 45 years. And, no, the Viet Cong didn't really exist. It was at once Ho Chi Minh's pickax and bludgeon in the south. Pose this question at an Upper West Side dinner party: What was worse, Nazism or Communism? Surely, the answer will be Nazism ... because Communism had an ideal of the good. This, despite the fact that communist revolutions and communist regimes murdered ever so many more millions of innocents and transformed the yearning of many idealists for equality into the brutal assertion of evil, a boot stamping on the human face forever.

Writing a Paper

So I have a presentation to give tomorrow (a joyous slide-show on Wangiella and melanin) and this weekend I am writing a review of infectious adrenalitis for publication. So, (as is often the case lately) I am bogged down with work that is reducing my blogging time. But I promise some quality updates after I get this paper completed (hopefully without too many editorial suggestions). Thankfully though, we now have Zwei on board posting away along with me.