Posted in Popular culture, tagged Batman, Gershom Legman, homosexuality on July 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Batman and Robin enjoy some downtime: a panel from World’s Finest Comics #59 (1952)
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Today’s National Post contains an article an article I’ve written examining the history of the rumour that Batman and Robin are gay. (like everything I write for the Post the article came along with an instant rebuttal, which you can read here. [...]
Posted in Foreign affairs, tagged Pat Buchanan, Winston Churchill on July 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Churchill cult has a lot to answer for: In England and the United States virtually every foreign policy disaster or near-disaster of the last six decades – from Suez to Viet Nam to Iraq – has been justified with pious invocations of Churchill’s prescient warnings against appeasement and his wartime leadership. So a book [...]
Posted in Foreign affairs, tagged Winston Churchill on July 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Winston Churchill loved India but hated Indians, a seemingly anomalous stance which is all too common among imperialists, who tend to disdain inhabitants of coveted lands. It’s worth asking how these divergent strands of Churchill’s thought – his desire to keep India under British rule and his extreme distaste for the real people who lived [...]
Posted in Foreign affairs, U.S. Politics, tagged Hitler, Pat Buchanan, Winston Churchill, World War II on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m not a fan of Winston Churchill. The man had his virtues and did some good but he was also a militarist (of the type that romanticizes war as a grand adventure), an imperialist, a bungling administrator (Gallipoli being only the most famous of his many botched operations), a racist, and a militant supporter of [...]
