We’re All Jacobins Now

Way back in 2004 Moveon.org ran a contest for people to create ads critical of President Bush; within the hundreds of submissions was one which compared George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. At the time Moveon was roundly excoriated across the political spectrum: the RNC called the submission “the worst and most vile form of [...]

Of ‘ists’ and ‘isms’

I have been slowly catching up on some of my online reading, and was struck by an apparent argument occurring between Glen Greenwald, Ann Althouse, and others regarding the use of term ‘Christianist’, as a Christian version of the popular usage of ‘Islamist’. I don’t wish to re-hash the entire set of arguments (please read [...]