Author: David Swindle

David Swindle is the managing editor of NewsReal Blog and an associate editor of FrontPage Magazine.

John Lennon’s Second Thoughts

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Cross-Posted from FrontPage Magazine For more than 40 years Beatles member John Lennon towered above all others as the Left’s most powerful artistic icon. His anthem “Imagine” dreamed of a unified world that transcended the divides of nation-states and religious strife. It was an inspiration to generations of utopians. Now a new documentary reveals a […]

 

Ron Radosh’s Blogging Hat Trick: His Three Must-Read Posts

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Cross-posted from NewsReal Blog Ron Radosh is on a roll over at his blog at Pajamas Media. He’s nailed it with his last three posts. Let’s start with the most recent and work our way back. First, yesterday Ron published, “TNR and the Crisis of The American Intellectual: Can the Old Liberal Stalwart Play a […]

 

Howard Bloom on Defending Israel (YouTube Video Parts 7, 8, and 9 of NRB Interview)

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Cross-posted from NewsReal Blog Click here for parts 1-6 of my interview with Howard Bloom. In those previous installments Howard explained his intellectual approach to the world. In today’s chunks of our discussion you begin to find out how he applies them to the issues that interest us here at NRB. First up: the anti-Semitic […]

 

The Most Exciting Conservative Thinker You’ve Never Heard Of

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Cross-Posted from NewsReal Blog In the past few months we’ve featured segments from my interview with Howard Bloom, author of The Genius of the Beast, Global Brain, and The Lucifer Principle. Collected here are the first six segments of the interview: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Parts 7, […]

 

5 Ways the Internet Is Transforming You – Douglas Rushkoff’s “Program or Be Programmed” Now Available

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Cross-Posted from NewsReal Blog. Editor’s Note: Douglas Rushkoff’s book Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age is now available so I’m reprinting my review that was originally published here on September 12. I’ve also embedded a new video of Rushkoff discussing the themes of the book. Order the book here. Program or […]

 

David Frum Weasels Out of a Morally-Suspect Corner: The 14 Errors in his Mea Culpa

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This post cross-posted from NewsReal Blog. I was so eager to forgive David Frum and return to the status quo we had before he believed Alex Knepper’s lies about us. Politically Frum and NewsReal Blog might have some substantive disagreements but on the key issues of support for Israel and a hawkish response to Islamofascism […]

 

The Top 10 Ways the Left Sees Obama

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This post was first published at NewsReal Blog. Visit us for more top 10 lists. If the Left can do anything it can dream. And after eight long years of the “illegitimately-elected,” insanely religious, : Warmonger-In-Chief George W. Bush, the Left was prepared to pour all its dreams into its new champion, and great hope, Barack […]

 

Those Who Despise the Radical Son Will Fall in Love With his Progressive Daughter

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Meet the late Sarah Horowitz, child of political activist David Horowitz, who managed to fuse the painful lessons of her father’s life with a mystical Judaism to complete the task he never could: showing how the Left could save itself from self-destruction. In 1956 a teenage David Horowitz suffered a wound which would pain him […]