On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, I talked with Clayton Thyne of the University of Kentucky about the political science of the Egyptian coup: Unfortunately, we lost the much-more-political-sciencey first half of the conversation because of technical problems.
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This is some pretty gruesome stuff: Governors united across party lines to protest the potential loss of their pet C-130s and other planes. Members of Congress lined up behind the potent.
Happy Tenth Birthday to Crooked Timber! As part of the run-up to LGM's 10th (May 31, 2014), we'll be slowly restoring the archives from our first year, a project that.
Reading such an eloquent dissection of privilege, I can almost forget that the Atlantic also employed Megan McCardle for half a decade. But the game is rigged. I know this because I loved my craft for many years and it meant nothing to anyone save...
I'm plowing through Vincent Orange's Bomber Champion: The Life of Marshal of the RAF Sir John Slessor. Slessor was a significant player in the organizational development of the RAF after World.
Some notes in brief... Missile intercept: FAIL What does the Snowden episode tell us about IR theory? Japan: Flat-tops or no? Ugh. Democratic maturity and Canadian petro-statiness. Marx's thinking about.
Let's try an oh-so-rare 2013 Predictions Progress Report: World Series Champion: Cincinnati Reds Number of new Venezuelan Presidents: 1 Academy Award, Best Picture: Lincoln Afghanistan Coalition fatalities: 315 (+/- 15) North Korean nuclear tests: 1 Sunsets on the Syria under President of Bashar al-Assad: 75...
Two additional Gettysburg bits. First, on this week's Foreign Entanglements I talk with Kevin Levin of Civil War Memory about Gettysburg and historical memory: Second, my contribution to the Diplomat.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. I'll have a Bloggingheads diavlog with Kevin Levin up shortly; until then... Five lessons from Gettysburg.
Goodnight Reader In the great google cloud there was a full text feed and folders and tags and sharing with… A random collection of internet “friends” And there were stars and there were trends And bundles And recommended items And details and statistics and RSS...
I've been ruminating for a while about this John Judis column on lefty reluctance to engage in Syria. Ali Gharib has a good response here, and Dan Trombly here; suffice.
Interesting story here: On June 25, Chinese officials were confronted with what appears to be the first public legal challenge arising from the Snowden affair. Xie Yanyi, a Beijing-based human.