Matt Duss has a very nice discussion of the legal and political questions surrounding the Israeli security barrier, with links to additional material. I try to avoid almost all discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute in my classes and my writing; others know more and have far...
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With, I suspect, partial tongue in cheek, Tacitus writes: Picture, if you will, a public ceremony in April 2065 honoring Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth -- two men, patriots each in.
As a foreign policy instructor at a major university, I am blessed by the occasional free book. Most of these are textbooks, which I quickly sell to the highest bidder..
Rather than wasting your money on Hitch, please send us booze. We're more entertaining while drunk, and we promise to blog while drinking whatever you send. I prefer Makers Mark. We can be reached through UW Political Science. . .
Trapper John notes that Mike Ditka was one hell of a bad football coach. Hopefully the people of Chicago will remember this in November. I'm inclined to think that they will;.
Check out the latest Zogby. Things looking very decent. The next four months are going to be murder. Can't get too optimistic, because I don't want to go through the next.
Here's Digby on the various plans of the administration to provide continuity-in-government in case of disaster, including the the potential postponement of elections. Here's Meteor Blades at Kos discussing the same thing. From Digby: If this is any guide at all, there is absolutely no reason to believe that they would...
Just finished screening The Third Man for my World Politics class, got me to think about cinema's greatest villains. A few of my favorite that leaped to mind: Harry Lime, Orson Welles,.
Here's a dialogue between Tacitus and Steve Sailer. Sailer insists that racial inequality is based on biology, and Tacitus drops the hammer on him. More commentary from Orcinus. Maybe the NYT should hire.
Fred Kaplan at Slate discusses the Army's conclusions about the first stages of the Iraq II. From a very cursory glance, seems pretty accurate to me. We have all seemed to forget that the invasion did not come off without a hitch; there were pretty serious concerns all the...
World O' Crap has been analyzing Family Circus cartoons as a running gag. Check this out.
Add me to the draft Ehrenreich campaign. This is one damn fine column. With the Repubs starting to fire up their "class warfare" crap against Edwards, it's important to remember who is actually.