Missing template problem fixed?

This blog went dead during the dread "missing template" problem on blogger that prevented posting. I gave up after a few months, and only recently bothered to come back and see if things had improved.

If this actually posts, then I guess it has...

(update)

I guess blogger has finally fixed the problems...

The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing, by Lee Harris in Policy Review.

Should be read in its entirety.

The Old Oligarch (or at least a wannabe) writes again in the Guardian.

Wow. Analysis of the current and future relationship between the US and EU. It's as impressive in its own way as Kagan's article. Found via Instapundit.

Update: Stephen Den Beste has an essay about it as well

Fun article by Dave Shiflett on the joys of homebrewing, also in the National Review. From the sounds of it, though, he needs to age his mead another six months or so -- he probably just aged it like a beer.

Another excellent article by Victor Davis Hanson on the odd (and decidedly un-imperial) nature of the so-called "American Empire".

I'm sorry, but this editorial from the Guardian is absolutely hilarious.

...If, by 4pm today, his [Blair] lawyers have failed to agree that he will not attack Iraq without a new UN resolution, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will take the prime minister to court. For the first time in history, the British government may be forced to defend the legality of its war plans in front of a judge.

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The judge might decide that the courts don't have the authority to rule on military matters, but if she does agree to hear the case, the chances of winning are high. ... Activists in the US are hoping to launch a similar case.

Compare and contrast with this legal article found via Instapundit.

Mebbe Britain's courts are more tranzi than even the US's courts, but somehow I doubt they're that far out there. I suspect Mr. Montbiot is smoking something again.

Here in the U.S., such a case would be laughed out of court.

Interesting article by David Broder in WaPo, on the parallels between the Bush/Rove strategy in Texas where Bush led the Republican party from an overwhelmed minority into complete dominance in only three election cycles. If Broder is right, the Dems had better watch out. Bush's performance in Texas was truly stunning -- each election after his first was a Democratic bloodbath. After their second shutout, the Democrat party basically took a pass on the 2000 election to regroup and strategize for 2002 -- where even with substantial DNC money and their strongest candidates in years they were beaten as bad as ever.

I want one of each.

Hugo Young rants about the Jewish Conspiracy in America:

Only in Washington does one get a true sense of the obsession of these Pentagon civilians. Conversationally, it is common talk that some of them, not including Rumsfeld, are as much Israeli as American nationalists. Behind nervous confiding hands come sardonic whispers of an American outpost of Likud. Most striking of all, however, is how unmentionable this is in the American liberal press. The aura of a dirty little secret surrounds the possibility - the perfectly intelligible and even reasonable possibility - that the emotional thrust of the anti-Saddam campaign, from the most hawkish hawks, contemplates the security of one country, Israel, which he really threatens, more than that of another, the US itself, which his weapons of mass destruction have no chance of reaching.

One gets the sense that he's talking to some pretty left-wing whack-jobs here, which is no surprise. Birds of a feather, and all that.

Interesting article by Michael Barone on long-term electoral trends.

One point that no one else seems to have noticed thus far is that Gen-X'ers tend to be much more conservative than their parents and older siblings. They'll probably blame it on Reagan, although my guess is that plain-old youthful rebelliousness is also at play. Some of Meade's hypotheses on the role immigration played in the political landscape are probably also involved.