May 2006
Illegal Art | Creative Commons
by mikepower & 1 other
A museum exhibit called "Illegal Art" might sound like a history of naughty pictures. Turns out that the exhibit (through July 25 at SF MOMA Artist's Gallery) is more innocuous than most primetime TV: A Mickey Mouse gasmask. Pez candy dispensers honoring
February 2006
Once Upon a Time...: In Service of the New Fascism
by mikepower
Because I plan to refer to it in several upcoming pieces, I've reposted an essay I wrote in August 2003. It analyzes in some detail a "neoconservative manifesto" authored by Irving Kristol and published that month: In Service of the New Fascism. Arthur Si
Cato Unbound: Theodore Dalrymple: Is “Old Europe” Doomed?
by mikepower
I wondered what happened to old Theo after he retired. I think he moved to France which, given his views on Europe, seems a strange choice. Why not Louisianna or Texas?
SullyWatch on those cartoons
by mikepower
This was clearly done to bait the European Muslim community. If you take the right, take the responsibility.
Times Online: The President is a dolt – so how can America be such a success story?
by mikepower
While America has been run by one of the most doltishly ineffectual governments in history, it has forged ever further ahead of Europe in terms of wealth, science, technology, artistic creativity and cultural dominance.
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