Forgive Me My Foul Murder
The tenth anniversary has prompted much reflection among such journalists about their support for a war that seems, in hindsight, to have produced little more than a tsunami of blood. Such people are wrong – besides killing a staggering number of people, the Iraq War also saw massive ethnic cleansing which has entrenched an authoritarian Shi’ite ruling class and a violent Sunni insurgency – but again, such concerns ignore the real victims. And at long last, free from the Iraqi voices that have so dominated our national conversation on the War, these victims are breaking their silence. BY GENERAL GANDHI
Monday, March 25, 2013A Letter From Prague: Asleep at The End of History
There is something beautiful about Prague's Wenceslas Square. Less a square than an expansive boulevard, Wenceslas Square is the city's main drag. Unlike Prague's Old Town - the city's well-preserved and heavily toured medieval core - Wenceslas Square's beauty isn't readily apparent. It's mostly undistinguished architecturally. It's lined with a motley assortment of cheesy restaurants, strip clubs, and fast food establishments. On busy Saturday nights, it's infested by feral British stag parties that roam from bar to bar. BY CHARLIE DAMERON
The Intellectual Situation of n+1
The demons are dancing for n+1. It wasn’t long ago that liberalism seemed catatonic, snowed in by the pragmatic sobriety of the Obama administration. The Republicans were the party of emotions, and in their radical re-envisioning the romantic left became no more than a set of charts on a policy brief. The poles had been reversed, and the progressive coalition of artists, writers, and poets was looking at bigger problems than the death of media. Literary magazines like n+1 were last bastions. Intellectuals flocked to support them not just to forestall the collapse of thought, but to forestall the collapse of romance. BY JAMIE BERK