Via Glenn Reynolds, I became aware of the existence of the Encounter Broadsides. (Encounter's publisher is Roger Kimball.) There are seven of them--so far--Outdentand they are penned by conservative thinkers and opiners like Michael Ledeen and Victor Davis Hanson.
Because the first couple are on back order, I have received and am reading the following. One need only take a look at the title of this third one in the series to discover the upshot.
It's only thirty-five pages long which I would guess is about the average length of the rest. Taking their cue from the founders, the authors of these broadsides intend to
make the case for liberty and the institutions of democratic capitalism at a time when they are under siege from the resurgence of collectivist sentiment.
And yesterday I received another book regarding a topic that seems to be on the back-burner of Internet political discussion but I contend is one of the main ideologies fueling the present leaders of our government.
The title refers a segment of a 1956 Martin Luther King Jr. speech in which he asserted that 11:00 Sunday mornings (church attendance time) was the most segregated hour of the week. But that assertion is preceded by these accusatory statements:
There is another thing that disturbs me to no end about the American church. You have a white church and you have a Negro church. You have allowed segregation to creep into the doors of the church.
Therefore I applaud Jeremy D. Lucas for his sense of irony when choosing the title of his book. Why? Because of the book's subject matter. Here's the subtitle: A Layman's Guide to the History of Black Liberation Theology.
This one is short also--only seventy-five pages long. Perhaps I'll get to finish a book for a change! And these two most definitely need finishing.
