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J. Arthur Bloom

J. Arthur Bloom has served as the managing editor of Front Porch Republic, opinion editor of the Daily Caller, and was the founder of the group blog The Mitrailleuse. Previously he was associate editor of The American Conservative. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, and a Virginian.

Articles by J. Arthur Bloom

Why Jim Webb Won’t Get a Fair Hearing

Here's Jack Ross over at the Mitrailleuse: The taxonomy by which the DC establishment made sense of the Democratic victory that year [2006] on the strength of antiwar sentiment was…
February 3, 2015

Once Upon a Time in the Middle East

My review of 'American Sniper' is up at TAC: The New York Times review of “Lawrence of Arabia” from 1962 complains that we don’t really get to know the titular character, a fault…
January 23, 2015

Step into the Sensorium

Pete Davis made his debut on this blog this week, with an essay on the poisonous politics of The West Wing. But he's not just a writer or community reformer. Today he has…
January 17, 2015

Christmas Greetings from Mordor

As I'm sitting in an office on K Street, emptied for Christmas, wondering how to introduce myself to you all, it occurs to me that I owe you an explanation. It…
December 24, 2014