The astonishing rise of Senator McCain in the American presidential race has prompted the pundits to examine his life story and career. Inevitably, there is lots of stuff about the war hero, campaign finance reformer and anti-tobacco missionary. McCain is also known...
The assassination of Yugoslavia's defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, by gunmen inside a Belgrade restaurant throws the spotlight once again on the former Yugoslavia – and dramatizes the developing crisis. For Bulatovic was a key component of Milosevic's ruling...
TERMINOLOGICAL FOREWORD It is best to clear up a few conceptual issues before looking at the thought of Walter Karp. The first question is: What is republican theory? We have to ask questions like that these days, in this country, because most people...
In Vienna, an eerie sight: 20,000 leftists marched on the conservative People's Party headquarters protesting the entry of Austria's Freedom Party into the government and supporting the European Union's threat of sanctions. According to the New York Times, "some...
I wish I could share Justin Raimondo’s essential optimism that Pat Buchanan will be able to make war and interventionism a viable issue at some point during the current election season. I have, well, issues with Pat. I disagree with some of the stands and...
It wasn't even close. While the Bushian spinmeisters would have us believe that New Hampshire is but a bump on an otherwise smooth road inevitably leading to the coronation of Bush II, McCain's New Hampshire triumph is a major upset: with considerably less money than...
TERMINOLOGICAL FOREWORD It is best to clear up a few conceptual issues before looking at the thought of Walter Karp. The first question is: What is republican theory? We have to ask questions like that these days, in this country, because most people...
Rewriting the past – as Orwell pointed out, a totalitarian regime must invest heavily in this essential task. In Orwell's famous novel, 1984, the regime of Big Brother openly proclaims the malleability of history in the following slogan: "Who controls the past...
"An end to the era of fear, corruption and blood" declaimed David Jessell, front-man of the BBC’s Europe Direct news magazine on 25th January. Such hyperbole might have lead viewers to think they were going to be treated to a programme about the fall of...
Perhaps Madeleine Albright’s abject apology to the presumptive Masters of the Universe at the United Nations for the unfortunate and retrograde comments made by North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms the week before was predictable. You could even argue that it was...
