Op-Ed: 9/11, COVID and Generation-Defining Events thegeorgeanne.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thegeorgeanne.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Wells: Boomers hold key to housing shortage – BizWest bizwest.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizwest.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
We Live in the Era of the New Conformists
Commentary
In his latest piece, the estimable Victor Davis Hanson asks the rhetorical question “Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?”
Without a doubt. And a key reason behind this, I have been thinking for a long time, is that the left and the semi-left, progressives and liberals masses of them in our country from the corporate world to the media to the academy to entertainment are the New Conformists.
Well, not completely new, but conformists beyond doubt. Hardly ever an original thought among them.
They are like the “Triplets” song from Vincente Minelli’s classical musical “The Band Wagon.” (“We do everything alike, we look alike, we dress alike. We walk alike, we talk alike.”)
In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement.
It might seem counterintuitive, but there are many books about warfare that take a comedic approach. This is probably rooted in the kind of grim gallows humor often shared by people in a dark and dangerous situation. In
Pandora’s Legions, the Earth is invaded by aliens who, despite some lucky scientific discoveries that gave them the capacity for interstellar travel, are less intelligent than the earthlings. Hilarity ensues when the invaders attempt to subdue an enemy that confounds their every effort and when their policies of assimilation spread those pesky humans throughout their empire, they indeed begin to feel li