If there really were a serious and politically meaningful Zoroastrian revival in Iran, how long do you think it would be before Zoroastrianism became the next big threat to the West, and how long would it take for Michael Ledeen to herald a new “clash of civlizations”?
Month: September 2006
It may be that democracy is a risk in Argentina, although Nancy Soderbergh really fails to make that case in her LA Times Op-Ed. It may also be that making friends with Hugo Chavez is a bad thing, eve
Mickey is in a state of confusion and disorder. He has been arguing for the past year or so that, contra what appears obvious to everyone else on the planet, immigration is a bigger problem for the De
A federal judge hearing a case about the President’s warrantless wiretapping program cut to the heart of the issue yesterday: “We’re debating a rather abstract but rather vital issue. Does the president have the power to do something despite the fact that Congress said ‘thou shalt not have this power.'” And it’s worth remembering, again, […]
As an early convert to Ezra’s Sebelius-for-Veep bandwagon, I have to say this doesn’t dissuade me. In addition, the piece is interesting because–like the surprisingly vigorous campai
Shorter Verbatim Leon Wolf: “[P]ro-freedom sounds more attractive than anti-slavery.” I dunno, “anti-slavery” sounds plenty good to me, but then I’m one of those nutty pr
Yglesias makes an interesting observation, which allows me to engage in some historical noodling: Wilhelmine Germany wasn’t especially noxious. It was quasi-democratic and evolving in the direction of greater democracy. Among its opponents was Tsarist Russia, the most noxious regime on the European continent at the time. And, of course, the allied victory didn’t exactly […]
Zakaria says it all: To review a bit of history: in 1938, Adolf Hitler launched what became a world war not merely because he was evil but because he was in complete control of the strongest country o
Eric Muller calls an exchange between Michael Stokes Paulsen and Jed Rubenfeld about the latter’s new book in the Yale Law Journal “head-turningly nasty,” and Ann Bartow agrees. Whil
Shorter Bullshit Moose: “A few random comments on a website somewhere prove that ‘Democratic leaders continue to collude with the anti-Semitic appeasing left.’ But what really demonstrates anti-Semitism is opposing the lunatic idea of invading Iran.” The DLC likes to complain about its reputation, but having people like Wittmann–somebody with reactionary positions on most economic […]
In this thread, a commenter noted something I’ve written about before, one of the most disturbing aspects of the deliberations surrounding Bush v. Gore: Ginsburg’s retreat on a footnote cr
I admit it: part of me wanted to mount a modest defense of Foer for giving a blog to Lee Siegel, if only on the grounds that nobody could have expected it to be as bad as it was. And Siegel had in the