David Swindle
David Swindle is the Managing Editor of NewsReal Blog and the Associate Editor of FrontPage Magazine. Follow him on Twitter here
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Today I’m offering parts 2 and 3 of my dialogue with author Howard Bloom. In these clips Howard takes us far back to the origins of life on this planet to show the patterns that still drive us today. As with part 1 of the interview — which I strongly encourage you to watch before diving into these new segments — I’ve illustrated the discussion with a variety of images.
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Yesterday David Horowitz dropped by my office, said “I’ve got a present for you,” and handed me an Amazon box. I opened it up and this book was inside. I was thrilled — I’ve been wanting to read this one for awhile now.
The developing conventional wisdom throughout the conservative blogosphere seems to be that the 92,000 documents on Afghanistan dumped by the leftist Wikileaks site are meaningless. These aren’t the Pentagon Papers. We know what’s in them.
This argument — true or false — is beside the point. Whether these documents contain important material or not it’s too soon to say. (There’s 92,000 pages here!) The potential danger should not be downplayed. read more…
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For the sake of a focused dialogue I’ll put aside the semantic question of whether we should regard Islam as a religion or a political movement. In fact I’ll yield to Bosch Fawstin’s precise, useful terminology of Islam as a “political religion.” The words do not matter so much as how we respond to the thing itself. I drift more toward the “political movement” side of the spectrum because I argue that it should be treated in that fashion — as a body of ideas that need to be eradicated (as should be done with all insidious philosophies,) not a religion to be respected. Islam needs to be “eradicated” (a term that makes you uncomfortable, though admittedly I hesitated for a moment before deciding to publish Jeanette’s post) for the same reasons that the Left does.
The key issue here for discussion is one of tactics in waging this intellectual war. read more…
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Last night my friend Calvin Freiburger took issue with the rhetoric in my friend Jeanette Pryor’s provocatively titled post “It’s Time to Put the Coffee Down and Eradicate Islam in the West.”
Calvin cites the constitutional provisions of freedom of religion, cautions that we need to support Muslim reformers, and strategizes that it’s important that we temper our rhetoric to engage the moderate center. These are all thoughtful, well-intended sentiments that I supported not long ago. But I don’t anymore. And here’s why. read more…
For awhile now I’ve been talking up author Howard Bloom. I’ve referenced his work in numerous posts, featured his books in NRB book club and then earlier this month I reviewed his newest book for FrontPage in an article titled “How Science Crushes the Left.”
Tuesday night I had the exciting experience of getting to interview Howard for two hours. Over the course of our talk he laid out the central themes behind his three books and makes clear his general approach to interpreting the world. I then got to get his take on the issues that we care about most at NRB — foreign policy, Israel, Islam, and capitalism. read more…
