by Fred Reed
November 9, 2010 This, written sixteen years ago, I stumbled on in the Lew Rockwell archive. While not brilliantly written, it illustrates that the more things change, they more they don’t. Oh good. I see that Senator Lindsey Graham wants to attack Iran. The US, he says, should “sink their navy, destroy their …
This is not a column, but a correction to silly assertions that the Guadalajara airport was in flames, that President Scheinbaum has fled the country, and suchlike nonsense. For those interested, the following link is to Mexico News Daily, an American-run daily published for the expat population: MND At the same time there is a …
Dear Europeans, In the international prints I see that you are outraged and upset and have your innards in an uproar because, in that Davos meeting where billionaires decide how to mismanage the world, Mr. Trump was all contemptuous of you and you can’t figure out why. Let me help you. He was contemptuous of …
Having written a longish letter to my friend Vick, with whom I engage in considerable philosophizing, it occurred to me that simply posting the letter would involve less effort than recasting the same thoughts as a column. Since the choice as between considerable work or going down the road to the Brew House for …
Americans, including many of the intelligent and schooled, have little grasp of geography and, since geopolitics rests heavily on where places are, their understanding of events relies on moral fables of good and evil. They are thus subject to manipulation by the news media and unscrupulous politicians, which is to say almost any politicians. Consider …
The Column Racket Explained: A political columnist should choose a place on the Left-Right spectrum. It doesn’t matter which. He needn’t believe it but should never deviate from it. Readers do not want intelligence or original thought. They want affirmation, to be told what they already think over. and over. Editors want predictability, not thought …
Oh help. I am told that some still believe that diversity is our strength. These people are powerful believers and probably could believe a hole into a bank vault or believe an anvil into flying. The fact is that diversity has been the cause of unending hostility, bloodshed, misery and social malfunction since Nordic white …
Twaddle to the right, twaddle to the left, and not a drop to drink. In contemplating China’s meteoric rise (though on thought I am not sure that meteors rise) Americans usually attribute it to cheap labor or theft of intellectual property or unfair governmental subsidies. But our religious faith in free enterprise, in which individuals …
Given that Washington is actively looking for a pretext to invade Mexico, where I have lived for twenty-three years, a few observations from this side of the border may be of worth. To begin, let us ponder Claudia Scheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s recently elected president, who is subject to considerable venom in the American media. For …
‘People of different sorts seldom want to live together. When forced to do so, the results often are suboptimal, such as mass murder. For example Protestants and Catholics in Ireland, Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi, Israelis and Palestinians in Palestine, Chinese and Indonesians in Jakarta, Shias and Sunnis in many places, Moslems and Hindus in …