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• 6 Sunday Sophistry: Kerry, Terrorism and Nuisances (or: Marc Racicot Channels the Spirit of Jacques Derrida)

  Jacques Derrida: really dead? Or advising the Republican party from beyond the grave? Marc Racicot and Ed Gillespie confirm that this is the Postmodern presidency by going deconstructive on Kerry's ass.

  in Politics — by Winston Smith — on Oct 11, 2004

• 5 Roger L. Simon (Mis)reads Wesley Clark

  Roger L. Simon claims that a Times op-ed proves that Wesley Clark supported the Iraq war. Not so, it seems.

  in Culture — by Winston Smith — on Jan 16, 2004

• 4 Bush's Lysenkoism and the Distortion of Intelligence

  What happened in the build-up to the Iraq war should have come as no surprise to those who had been observing the Administration's general attitude to science and rational inquiry. In this, the postmodern presidency, belief need no longer conform to fact; on the contrary, facts are flexible things which must be made to conform to inflexible opinion.

  in Politics — by Winston Smith — on Jan 14, 2004

• 3 David Brooks on Neo-Cons and the Great Unhinging

  David Brooks suggests that those who fear the influence of neo-conservatives are anti-Semites. And he has a good point. It's a different point, but it's a good one...

  in Politics — by Winston Smith — on Jan 13, 2004

• 2 Patriotically Incorrect Degrees of Happiness

  If the capture of Saddam didn't send you into transports of unalloyed ecstasy, you're probably a terrorist, a pinko...maybe even a Democrat... But one thing's for sure: you aren't patriotically correct.

  in Politics — by Winston Smith — on Dec 16, 2003

• 1 The duToitification of the Western Conservative

  in Sci/Tech — by Winston Smith — on Nov 11, 2003