Tom Friedman has a column about the folly of open-ended military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least its bottom line, it must be noted, is correct. Omitted: and recognition of the columnist's inability to grasp these facts when it actually mattered.
Month: November 2011
I should probably outsource the Bobo blogging to Pierce on an ongoing basis. ...whoops, looks like he needs a few more trips to the Appelbee's salad bar.
Hey now, it's not as if knowing whether China has nuclear weapons is at all relevant to the practice of American foreign policy: I do view China as a potential.
Historiann has a good post on the problems with teaching the American Revolution: the extreme nationalism of the students on the subject It’s not just that it’s difficult to teach the quintessentially nationalistic course in American history in an era in which a great deal...
Dave Zirin's piece on Tebow's disastrous performance and his aggressive evangelicalism links to this very disturbing 2008 news story of Tim Tebow going to the Philippines to circumcise young boys.
I was joking about how the next massive Caro LBJ book would focus on his vice presidential years. Apparently, I was prescient, although at least we will get 1964. And.
I think this is correct. In a field that has no logical winner, it seems pretty obvious that the closest thing to an orthodox conservative capable of speaking in complete sentences should have stayed in. (Both McCain and Kerry, after all, didn't look like they...
Chick-Fil-A: worth boycotting for reasons other than the quality of the food. It's always nice when expedience and principle can coexist easily...
Shorter Bobo: "'Stagnant social mobility' and the concentration of wealth within a self-perpetuating plutocracy are completely separate problems. And people without college degrees would magically become more prosperous if they.
Joshua Frank has a superb story at Alternet (I think it originally appeared in the Seattle Weekly) on the incompetent and dangerous nuclear clean-up procedures at Hanford, in southeastern Washington. In many ways, it's a story that we've heard before in recent years: the government...
It's not like this should surprise anyone at this point.
Doing their best to bring smallpox back.