Christopher Buckley’s Boomsday is an entertaining novel that contains deeper (and, to a liberal, more sinister) political implications. The first assumption of his book is that the impending retirements of baby boomers threaten the future of Social Security. This is rather flawed, and so any implications, intentional or otherwise, that can be drawn are equally flawed. Nonetheless, it’s a fun little book.

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Posted at 15 April 08 at 18.04 in Books

One of the greatest ideas for a book ever is to analyze what would happen to the world of humanity disappeared from it tomorrow. The obvious answer is that our crap, save bronze and some marble, would fall apart; nature, even if in the form of kudzu, would thrive; and, most importantly, life would go on.

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Posted at 08 April 08 at 20.04 in Books

Earlier this week, Senator Barack Obama unveiled a program that did more than pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He unveiled a program that does nothing short of taking up his great legacy.

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Posted at 05 April 08 at 07.04 in Politics, Obama 08

King’s dream has lived on. But with his death, the faith of a generation of men and women who came of age under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s promise of a government that could care not just for the rich, but for all members of our society, began to falter. Forty years ago, an assassin’s bullet did more than kill a great leader, an American icon. It horribly wounded a movement.

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Posted at 04 April 08 at 09.04 in Politics, Culture, Obama 08

Rare is an argument in defense of the suburbs. In the occasional instances that such arguments do arise, they generally emerge from the mouths of developers and other economically or politically interested parties. But Martinson’s American Dreamscape provides just such an argument – more or less.

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Posted at 03 April 08 at 19.04 in Culture, Books