SUBMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.
The winning Council post comes to us via Alpha Patriot with some thoughts on the “numbers behind the numbers” taken from the November election. I gotta say, this is the kind of stuff I love…”inside politics” with a dash of humor and thoughtful analysis. Great stuff!
The winning non-Council post was written by Lashawn Barber whose post on David Horowitz recounts his troubles with lefty academics.
Horowitz was a radicals radical back in the 1960’s. Gradually, however, he realized the threat these moonbats posed to western civilization and when his beloved Black Panthers killed a key witness in a murder case involving Black Panther leader Huey Long, Horowitz had a very public and very messy break with his ideological soulmates. For this, he was threatened both professionally and physically. Ever since then, he has championed academic freedom and contributed in no small way to the debate over islamic fundamentalism.
I wasn’t as radical as Horowitz back in the 1960’s. But after reading his excellent book on the Kennedy’s (written with Peter Collier) I realized that I’ve taken an intellectual journey not dissimilar to his. Horowitz sponsored a symposium called “Second Thoughts” out of which came a book containing a dozen or so essays from former 60’s radicals and sought to explain that journey. Among the other contributors are Joshua Muravchik, Richard Neuhaus, Arturo Cruz, Jr., Jeffrey Heft, K. L. Billingsley, Doan Van Toai, and Barry Rubin. The perspectives of an earlier generation of “second thoughters, ” such as Martin Peretz, Norman Podhoretz, Hilton Kramer and Irving Kristol are also included.
P. J. O’Rourke has an excellent essay on the conference in his book “Give War a Chance.”
If you’d like to submit a post for consideration, you may do so by following the instructions here.