Let me now unveil the first-ever ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (for November 2006), namely:
Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
That’s right, it’s the neocons’ bible (well, not counting the Bible), and what better time for me to read it than now, when, some would argue, this book has led by a circuitous, fifty-three-year [...]
Let us hope America (like our December Lolita Bar debate crowd) is in a mood to talk about rebuilding and repairing — rather than vengeance — after the close and hard-fought midterm elections. The world doesn’t really need more combative ideologues.
As political scientists predicted decades ago, that approach seems to have brought us to [...]
I spent the night of the ’06 elections making my way up Manhattan’s East Side, stopping by four different Republican parties — at least two that had been perfunctorily and overoptimistically billed as “victory” parties — shaking hands with losing New York state senate candidate Dan Russo, watching Jeanine Piro give her depressingly generic concession [...]
Wednesday, Nov. 8, join a free-for-all discussion of “What the Election Results Mean” and what happens next, featuring (Rockefeller-Republican blogger) Jonathan Funke, (Democratic activist) Dvd Avins, and anyone from any faction who’d care to join our audience — and be heard.
(NOTE: We’re not gathering the first Wednesday of the month this time but rather the [...]