I haven't been able to write extensively about the situation in Afghanistan in part because in my day-job capacity I am still involved to an extent in the situation in Afghanistan; we have alums who are stuck and we are doing our best to do right...
In July of 2004, Lloyd Omdahl got a letter from a kid named Cody Wentz. Omdahl, a political scientist and a former lieutenant governor of North Dakota, had written a.
Good account of why the Afghan military, such as it is, collapsed like the Orioles bullpen against the 1927 Yankees: The spectacular collapse of Afghanistan’s military that allowed Taliban fighters.
We can return to more serious matters imminently, but I cannot resist noting Maureen Dowd pretending to be offended by elites throwing fancy parties: Much of Dowd's column is not so much that she objects to Obama having a birthday party, as that she objects to...
The foreign policy and military establishment will do everything they can to blame Biden, but the bottom line remains that Afghanistan is a massive failure on their part, and Biden.
The country that most needs some good luck for once can never get any: A massive 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday morning, killing hundreds of people and shaking buildings.
Science fiction is written all over the world, and every few years Anglophone audiences get exposed to a new corner of it. The last decade has seen a flowering of Chinese and Japanese SF in translation. A few years ago, Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad took...
The Taliban have apparently now entered Kabul. We can hope for the best, but it seems more likely than not that we are looking at a humanitarian crisis across multiple.
I alluded to this with respect to Rand Paul's insider trading, but Helaine Olen has a great column on how this particular type of felonious corruption should be particularly easy.
Since this is a milestone post in the Film Club, let's focus on a great film. I love the classic period of Wong Kar-Wai, who has a strong claim to be the best director working in the 1990s. Granted, My Blueberry Nights was a complete disaster...
It's like, how much more Andrew Cuomo could this be? And the answer is "none": Andrew Cuomo saw a copy of The Power Broker and thought, “wow that’s a big.
Obviously, the big news of the week is the death of Nanci Griffith. I've never been the biggest fan, though I certainly like some of her songs. In fact, I.