Duss: As a recent CBS poll showed, the neoconservative agenda remains broadly unpopular among Americans, but as long as neocons continue to occupy prominent think tanks, editorial boards, and cable news channels, and without any comparably well-funded counterweight within the conservative movement, we’ll have to keep...
Author: Robert Farley
I thought that Jon Chait's long article on leftist disappointment with Democratic Presidents was interesting, but that it succeeded in identification of such discontent without making much effort to explain.
Anya Landau French has a good comparison of the sanction policies against Burma and Cuba. Key point: Unlike the maze of Congressionally-mandated sanctions against Cuba enacted over the last several.
Last night I accidentally watched the bulk of the GOP national security debate. There was certainly a degree of entertainment value, and there's something to be said for being part of a community of live tweeters. Rick Perry made Michelle Bachmann make sense on Pakistan,...
Fascinating, disturbing map of the ~370000 traffic deaths in the United States between 2001 and 2009. You can drill down to street level data, which includes age, year, and type.
With the NBA not happening and college football over, it's time to start talking baseball. Let's begin with this from Jason Brannon and Rob Neyer: Resolved: Albert Pujols is not.
Really loving the NYT's Disunion blog. Loomis probably knew who William Brownlow was, but I had never heard of him: Fancying himself a modern Isaiah, Brownlow declared on the masthead, “Cry Aloud and Spare Not.” He wrote scathing harangues excoriating all things he despised, including,...
It's fun to teach the bureaucratic politics segment of National Security Policy during such momentous times. Panetta: The federal budget is roughly about $4 trillion. About a trillion of that.
Last week the Global Times e-interviewed me about the possibility of war between the United States and China. Here's the result, along with answers to the same questions from Major.
My final entry into the Yale Journal Iran nuclear debate is up: Ackerman and Cohen accept many of these lies at face value. Ackerman apparently believes that the autocrats in Bahrain would not have suppressed demonstrators, but for the specter of Iran. Dead protestors in...
I observe with some degree of pride that Captain Andrew Betson, a student of mine at the Patterson School, has an article in the latest Armed Forces Journal. The article.
Today we're revisiting the Iran: No Big Deal argument. First up, my column at WPR makes the case for thinking about Iran in terms of the behavior of other nuclear.