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If you can stomach some old-right cultural conservatism, "On War" is a collection of his essays during the first phase of the Iraq war: http://www.amazon.com/W

• jerf 12y ago
  "If you can stomach some old-right cultural conservatism," Though just to make sure that doesn't overly turn off people it really shouldn't, bear in mind that this is the sort of 'old-right cultural conservatism' that, at least so far into my reading of the book, was unremittingly hostile about every aspect of the Iraq war, from its goals, how it was run, who was running it, and so on. It makes left-wing criticism of the war look anemic and bereft of detail by comparison. I mean, I strongly recommend that a serious intellectual ought to with some frequency seriously entertain viewpoints that don't match their own anyhow, but I do feel it's worth pointing out that an anti-war left wing partisan will probably have less trouble with the book than that summary would indicate.
  • carsongross 12y ago
    Absolutely. One of the most interesting books I've read in the last year was Engels "Origins of the Family, Private Property & the State": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family,_Private_Property_and_the_State http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family,_Priva... There is a lot of bat-shit crazy in there, but a lot of very interesting anthropology and ideas as well. Not that those are mutually exclusive.