How bad is it when the story of 380 tons of lost explosives can't even make a blip on my outrage meter? Really, what could these people do that they haven't already done? If someone wrote a fictional account of the Bush presidency, no one would...
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Nice catch by Matt Duss. For all that we were worried about the journalistic black hole that a Houston-Boston World Series would have precipitated, Bush actually has a much closer relationship.
Today, I showed The Battle of Algiers to my Military Intervention class. I was thinking about skipping out; a film doesn't really require my presence beyond an intial hit of.
Brad and Matt are having a conversation that I absolute must comment on. My inner nerd demands it. Brad Delong, thinking outside the box, concludes that Neville Chamberlain made a mistake in standing up to Nazi aggression against Poland. what happens in the possible world where...
People who let their cell phones ring during a movie? Scum. Students who let their cell phones ring during class? Slime. A Lecturer who lets his cell phone ring while.
Fred Kaplan had a characteristically excellent article in Slate yesterday. He argues that no "military transformation" has actually occured during Rumsfeld's tenure at the top of the Defense Department. Rather, the.
Giovanni Sartori, in the October 2004 issue of PS: Political Science and Politics: Where is political science going? In the argument that I have offered here, American-type political science (to be sure the "normal science," for intelligent scholars are always saved by their intelligence) is going...
Condolences to Mike Hargrove, new Mariners manager. He has the misfortune of having been selected as Bill Bavasi's victim for the next couple of years. That said, not a bad manager,.
Cool class. I wish I could take courses from Brad Delong and Barry Eichengreen. I suppose I could try to keep up with the readings, but we all know that's.
In the latest New York Review of Books, the various regular contributors have given us their thoughts on the 2004 election. Is this election the most consequential of our lives? I'm not certain; a good case can be made that the 2000 election was more consequential,...
Jesse and Ezra do a great job of taking apart Tommy Franks' NYT op-ed today. Franks' editorial is both self-serving and self-indicting; he claims that there was no proof Osama was located.
Went to see Yes Men last night. If you haven't heard, it's a documentary about a couple of guys who end up maintaining the web address gatt.org, from which they operate.