“The psychological roots of anti-Americanism” is an interesting premise, too bad the author didn’t bother to address it. He does give a long list of what he evidently considers to be examples of anti-Americanism. But since he never explains what anti-Americanism is nor explain how any of his examples are intrinsically anti-American we are left to fend for ourselves.

I’m left to wonder if per chance he was paid by the column inch.

Here is a bit of sad news which I’ll post as a comment to this entry if I may, but which in reality has relevance to just about any blog entry on VFR, since the man it’s about fought hard for the goals VFR endeavors to advance (and strove against just the sort of mindless anti-Americanism discussed in this article). Those who knew the writings and ideas of Balint Vazsonyi will be saddened to learn that he died yesterday. I discovered the columns of this great American a couple of years ago in the pages of NewsMax.com, where they were regularly published and where he had a column archive. He was a twentieth-century de Toqueville, explaining to Americans what they perhaps could not see of their inherited political treasure but he could, having an outsider’s perspective — an outsider, especially, whose only experience of society and of government prior to coming to this country had been under the Nazis first and communists second in his native Hungary. And, always deeply appreciative of exactly how precious were our political and legal legacies in this country, bequeathed us by our forefathers, he could not stand idly by and merely watch, later in his life, as those treasures came under deadly assault and those American foundations, to him nearly miraculous, began to be severely shaken. He rightly perceived, David-Horowitz-style, that we were in a very serious and potentially deadly war, which began in earnest some three decades ago. After retiring from a very successful career as a concert pianist, he devoted the final years of his life to writing and speaking in defense of traditional American values and institutions, and touring the country giving talks aimed at re-awakening all Americans to what was unique about their country and so well worth preserving. I learned of his passing just a few minutes ago here, http://www.vdare.com/roberts/balint.htm .