George Will deconstructs the advent of the Euro: The common currency serves the political objective of changing Europe’s civic discourse by supplanting political reasoning with economic calculation. The euro is an instrument for producing a European superstate, which requires erasing from the nations’ populations their national identities, which means their distinctive memories. Here we go again, yet another European campaign against ‘false consciousness,’ this time meaning patriotism. “The euro is

“We continue to ignore the intellectual enablers of anti-Americanism at our peril.”

From Josh Gerstein’s story for ABCNews.com, “Silver Screen Assassin”: The new Iranian film Kandahar is winning raves from critics for its tale of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, but one of the film’s stars has a pretty interesting story of his own: American prosecutors say he’s a fugitive and a murderer. The movie’s credits identify him as Hassan Tantai, but authorities say he is actually David Belfield, an

Blogger was named alongside Google, Yahoo, Ebay, and Amazon, as one of The Seven Wonders of the Web by the UK’s Guardian Unlimited. Almost immediately, however, the Guardian has begun running articles calling on Blogger to “cease its cyber imperialism,” and to examine the “root causes” of the two recent hack attacks against it. As “the world’s sole weblog Superpower,” one Guardian pundit admonishes, “Blogger needs to re-evaluate the racist

A cooler filled to bursting with cold bottled beers of various hues and pedigrees; bowls of chips, differently sized and shaped and spiced — with dips made from spinach and clam and dill-smoked salmon; platters of crisp cut veggies, chafing dishes filled with Asian-styled dumplings (with a ginger sesame sauce) and criminally spicy buffalo wings — the meat so soft it slides melting off the bone; summer sausage slices slathered

An instructive anecdote for this evening: Last year, I insulted the hostess of a New Year’s Eve party I was attending by smugly noting, “Uh, that’s not really champagne, — it’s sparkling wine,” when she tried to make what she called a “champagne toast” just before midnight. Not my fault, really — she was pouring from a bottle born in Sonoma, CA., which is no where near N.E. France… “So.