Wow. Just… wow. So is Goldberg (or Ole Perfesser, MRS) speaking from experience here? Most of the people I know who went to college, be it to Ivy League universities (Brown and Harvard in my case) or to other private or public institutions, did not have a free ride. They took out loans and/or worked while in college. There were some really rich folks at my undergrad and grad institutions who often seemed to treat being there like the quote above (often they were “legacy” brats or children of people with connections, so they didn’t really need the edumacation), but everyone else seemed to understand what was going in to their being in college.

It still amazes me that Teh Pantload and others of his ilk ignore or distort reality so blatantly. Maybe they’re just playing to the preconceptions of those who think Animal House, the Revenge of the Nerds movies, and Back to School are documentaries.

It’s beginning to sound like the whole Invasion-of-the-Brain-Snatchers Book is a swipe at Fukuyama, and his idea that the world might wake up from the nightmare of history. Remember how Buckley & Kristol were ranting about the horrors of a world of prosperity and liberal democracies, with no enemies for the US, no need for an imperial role, no place for their Pagan Virtues?

The existence of this otherwise-unnecessary Book makes more sense if you see it as a stalking-horse for Buckley & Kristol; an attempt to make a peaceful, prosperous future sound horrible.

(Assuming that many Americans here are indeed mainstream Democrats who believe fervently that electing Hillary=or Obama-will make one iota of difference in real long term foreign policy trends and goals)

That’s odd. The quote content changed. This is what I picked up on.

Like the Christmas Holiday itself, the battle is now a tradititon.

Well, there you have it. Few here could possibly possess the secret leftist knowledge you do. We look forward to being introduced to analyses of the modern manipulation of nationalism, state power, coercion, and ideology in the context of the products of right wing nepotistic failures who proudly profess a haughty opposition to the empirical approach to history and so therefore “fascism” is just whatever the hell he wants it to be, on any page he wants, in any way he wants.

True…the book is ridiculous. It IS ignorant. It IS hilarious, and I have enjoyed the take down.

“Damn, Brian, way to beat the shit out of that straw man.”

Why is this a straw man situation? Are you denying that American foreign policy over the past 100+ years has been pretty much a bipartisan consensus-devoted to spreading economic power and yes, “Empire” at great cost to hundreds of thousands of luckless wogs? While acknowledging how ridiculous the Goldberg book is, liberals here and elsewhere are ignnoring the mote in their political party’s eye. (Assuming that many Americans here are indeed mainstream Democrats who believe fervently that electing Hillary=or Obama-will make one iota of difference in real long term foreign policy trends and goals)

Indeed, El Cid. In reading this book, I always have to keep in my mind what a pompous asshat Hitchens is the rest of the time.

Read El Cid’s comments. It’s like you’re not even trying.