Like any good traitorous socialist lefty, I am supposed to treat European culture and politics as decidedly superior to the American alternative. And I often do! But on the subject of libel laws, it seems quite clear to me that Americans have a much more...
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Scott Horton interviews Will Bunch about his book Tear Down This Myth. Bunch's most interesting contention is that, on terrorism-related issues such as torture, "collateral damage," and treating terrorism within.
People arguing that civilian trials are never appropriate for terrorist suspects are arguing from a position well to the right of the Bush administration (at least the 2006 version.) And.
Matt Duss shoots, guts, dries, and renders into tasty beef jerky the Chalabi-supporting wing of the neoconservative movement:Even after the invasion, after it became clear that there were no WMD and no Saddam-Al Qaeda alliance, and that, despite his claims of a massive following, Chalabi...
Finally had a look at the 2010 QDR on the plane to New Orleans yesterday. I don’t mean to poke fun of our defense establishment’s hard work. I promise I’ll.
The HSR study I mentioned before on the declining toll of war has attracted a number of criticisms. Les Roberts at Making Sense of Sudan argues that their result is.
Having spent the better part of a decade now listening to people patiently explain why it's a good thing to pathologize the bodies of 71% of the American population in order to improve their health (68% of adults are supposedly "overweight" and "obese," and another...
Nicholas Kristof is writing about Congo again this morning:It’s easy to wonder how world leaders, journalists, religious figures and ordinary citizens looked the other way while six million Jews were.
Given that Rob has been ruminating lately about the US government's defense strategy for twenty-first century wars, consider this set of interesting data on war casualties. A new report, out.
Why do repressive regimes sign the Torture Convention when they don't plan to comply with it? At the Monkey Cage, Erik Voeten has a round-up of some conventional answers and calls attention to a novel explanation just out as a working paper from NYU.[cross-posted at...
Kayvan Farzaneh informs us that the Pentagon has been worrying about terrorists using World of Warcraft to plot attacks. Considering a Wisconsin appeals court recently upheld the right of prisons.
What if Ayn Rand had been 6'10" with a pretty good jumpshot?Dear Haitians -First of all, kudos on developing the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Your commitment to human.