Virginia Festival of the Book ("the Book?")

Anne Kingston's understanding of culture of anti-feminism which exists past the legal is better than fine.  Her not understanding why other people don't get it sad.

Viriginia Celebration of the Reactionary. Politics & Ecology Part 3

     Tom Miller starts with a very bad joke, and the ahistorical comment about opening up Mexican restaurants in Arizona (which, of course, used to be part of Mexico).  However, he definitely seems to have a sense of things.  He discusses the wall between Mexico and America as an example of one of the famous walls of the 20th century.  He exaggerates unnecessarily by describing the border region as a "third country" between America and Mexico.

Virigina Festival of Reactionary, Politics & Ecology Part 2

     Frank Shugart mentions, over and over and over again, the temperature change over the last 12,000 years without ever mentioning the end of the last ice age.  It would be like pointing to stock market rises since Oct 15th, 1929, without ever mentioning the crash of Black Tuesday.  Shugart is misinforming people.  Shugart is encouraging people not to trust scientists on the topic of climate change, but "their own observations."  He deserves a dunce cap.  Here is a chart showing how unusual our particular spot is.  We are at the peak warmth moment of the last four ice ages.

Virginia Festival of Reactionary, Politics & Ecology Part 1

The introduction describes America as an "illiberal, authoritarian, militaristic democracy." 

    Geoffrey Stone speaking on the topic of "Politics & Ecology" doesn't mention environmentalism at all.  Instead, the topic is the first amendment.  The guy tries to say there is no distinction between war times and non-war times.  However, when offering examples, points to WWII and the Civil War, both of which were certainly wartime.  The Sedition Acts (1798) and Wilson's anti-sedition laws were also mentioned.  Only the most distinctly of war times.

     Geoffrey Stone is an ahistorical idiot.  He ignores Abraham Lincoln, and the numerous other critics of Polk's war, he ignores Carl Schurz, and the other critics of the Spanish-American War, when he ignorantly suggests that the non-prosection of Eugene McCarthy's anti-Vietnam stance, or Howard Dean's anti-Iraq comments, were unprecedented.