Michael Anton

But, you know, I was at this event with one of the things in New York was a Claremont Review of Books meeting, you know, a forum.

At the Harvard Club, and we were talking a lot about Michael Anton's article on Stanford, and I went back and looked at that list of words you shouldn't use that we made so much fun of a few years ago.

That I used

all the time.

And she's gotten a lot of pushback, both in Israel and, and on the American right for going there and saying that, but I think she's a hundred percent correct.

Michael Anton wrote a great piece, uh, in the Claremont Institute's publication, the American mind defending her.

Um, and Michael Anton's a former state department official.

They I think that Netanyahu's Israel has done more to further the cause of antisemitism than anything that any right wing or, or, you know, zealot or left wing hater could have done.

That's my view.

the Department of Defense, Department of War, is all over this supply chain stuff.

And yesterday, an old friend of mine, Michael Anton, told me that he thinks that they really are going to bring it into order.

And one of my kids who works at the Wall Street Journal told me the other day, I said, are we running out of bullets? And she said, and, you know, they follow that stuff and I guess probably have sources of information.

But she said, not now, she said, but we're worried about 28 and 29.

Well, why don't you tell people about the prof because it's a figure again, there ought to be a TV series about him.

Yeah.

Well, Churchill, you know, had friends, right? People he knew a long time and he knew Linderman for 40 years.

Um, Lindemann was a great physicist.

the Department of Defense, Department of War, is all over this supply chain stuff.

And yesterday, an old friend of mine, Michael Anton, told me that he thinks that they really are going to bring it into order.

And one of my kids who works at the Wall Street Journal told me the other day, I said, are we running out of bullets? And she said, and, you know, they follow that stuff and I guess probably have sources of information.

But she said, not now, she said, but we're worried about 28 and 29.

Well, why don't you tell people about the prof because it's a figure again, there ought to be a TV series about him.

Yeah.

Well, Churchill, you know, had friends, right? People he knew a long time and he knew Linderman for 40 years.

Um, Lindemann was a great physicist.

So here's the thing, and it's a dog whistle thing.

I don't know what Amanda thinks of Kennan, but I can read for myself what Michael Anton, Curtis Yarbon, Kurt Mills, and Daryl Cooper think of him, and I can see for myself the post-libs coming out of the woodwork to defend this otherwise obscure creature of our past.

I can see how he's being held out as a, quote, realist, which is a deceptive brush they paint themselves with.

I can also see that NatCon itself has circulated an essay published in 2022 in the Asia Times holding Kennan out as an expert authority on the issues with Russia in lines with views of above.

He's not my favorite.

Both the West Coast and East Coast Straussians are not my people per se, but Lindsay's take, people out there running around talking about Leo Strauss like he isn't a super weirdo goof nut too.

So he's asking Grok, is Leo Strauss obscure? Which at the point where you're asking Grok to back you up on something, especially when you're talking about philosophy, it's like, dude, what are you doing? How did we get here, right? Now, one of the other relevant pieces of this actually is Michael Anton wrote an article in the American Mind talking about James Lindsay called The James Lindsay Fever Dream, A Career-Ending Backfire.

I won't go through this, but man, it's pretty good.